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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. P. A. Bernstein (University of Toronto)
- 2. J. R. Swenson (University of Toronto)
- 3. D. C. Tsichritzis (University of Toronto)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bernstein_sigmod75,
title = {{A Unified Approach to Functional Dependencies and Relations}},
author = {Bernstein, P. A. and Swenson, J. R. and Tsichritzis, D. C.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '75},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/500080.500112},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/500080.500112},
year = {1975}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 589 | On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model | 1975 | SIGMOD | 0.00016066932 |
| 824 | The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications | 1978 | SIGMOD | 0.00013791986 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 589 | On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model | 1975 | SIGMOD | 0.00016066932 |
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