Discovering Denial Constraints
Summary: Proposes Denial Constraints (DCs) as a more expressive integrity-constraint language than FDs/CFDs, with sound inference rules and a linear-time implication test. Devotes an instance-driven DC discovery algorithm and a novel scoring function to rank candidates for user validation; empirical evaluation on real and synthetic data demonstrates scalable, effective constraint discovery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Xu Chu (University of Waterloo)
- 2. Ihab F. Ilyas (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- 3. Paolo Papotti (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chu_vldb13,
title = {{Discovering Denial Constraints}},
author = {Chu, Xu and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Papotti, Paolo},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '13},
volume = {6},
number = {13},
pages = {1498--1509},
doi = {10.14778/2536258.2536262},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536258.2536262},
year = {2013}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases | 1993 | SIGMOD | 0.0006567919 |
| 159 | CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.00028129426 |
| 432 | Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00018572055 |
| 647 | Discovering Data Quality Rules | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00015334666 |
| 1,033 | On Generating Near-Optimal Tableaux for Conditional Functional Dependencies | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00012529852 |
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