On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model

Summary: Proposes a semantic data model that extends the relational paradigm to capture real-world object types, relationships, and meaningful modification units beyond algebraic constraints. It defines independent object types with insertion/deletion semantics for 3NF relations and analyzes functional dependencies to refine normalization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2023
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 0.00045646715
Overall Rank: 120 | 99.17%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Hans Albrecht Schmid
2. J. Richard Swenson

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
170	A Complete Axiomatization For Functional And Multivalued Dependencies In Database Relations	1977	SIGMOD	0.0003886136
309	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00028136165
348	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00026443996
737	An Entity-based Database User Interface	1980	SIGMOD	0.00017439177
1,519	Data Model Integration Using The Structural Model	1979	SIGMOD	0.00011553956
1,601	A Method for Describing Information Required by the Database Design Process	1976	SIGMOD	0.00011200284
1,813	A Unified Approach to Functional Dependencies and Relations	1975	SIGMOD	0.00010464576
4,028	On the Expressive Power of the Logical Data Model	1985	SIGMOD	6.5157392e-05
6,035	An Access Path Model for Physical Database Design	1980	SIGMOD	5.2415551e-05
13,080	A Methodology of Application Program Analysis and Conversion Based on Database Semantics	1977	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,813	A Unified Approach to Functional Dependencies and Relations	1975	SIGMOD	0.00010464576

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