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Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning

Summary: Extends the relational model to encode atomic and molecular semantics, enabling richer meaning beyond n-ary relations. Offers a synthesis of semantic-modeling ideas to guide systematic design and smarter data-management behavior. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2109
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1979
Pagerank
0.0015385917
Overall Rank
8 | 99.95%
DOI
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