Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values

Summary: Defines genuineness of FDs under missing-value semantics; proposes algorithms to compute a genuineness score for discovered FDs. Extensive experiments on real and semi-synthetic data show accurate extraction of genuine FDs from large FD sets, aiding robust data cleaning and repairs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11791
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 8.5173637e-05
Overall Rank: 2,574 | 82.10%
DOI: 10.14778/3204028.3204032

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