A Unified Approach to Functional Dependencies and Relations

Summary: Unified treatment of functional dependencies (FDs) and relations, using FDs as the core unit to describe and decompose data. Proposes algorithmic techniques to map FDs into normal-form relations, enabling FD-driven implementation and conceptual modeling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2026
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 0.00010459687
Overall Rank: 1,811 | 87.42%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
120	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00045634921
349	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00026431755

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
120	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00045634921

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