Improving Semantic Specification in a Relational Database
Summary: Introduces renaming rules to formalize attribute relationships and generalization in the relational model. Axiomatizes the framework, derives select/union semantics from natural joins via Smith's subcategory functional dependencies, and presents a general normal-form decomposition algorithm. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 581 | On An Algebra For Historical Relational Databases. Two Views | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00019765969 |
| 1,038 | Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation | 1982 | PODS | 0.0001450967 |
| 1,965 | Windows On The World | 1983 | SIGMOD | 9.9176387e-05 |
| 2,482 | LAURA: A Formal Data Model and her Logical Design Methodology | 1983 | VLDB | 8.6783176e-05 |
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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 |
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| 1,743 | Extended Semantics for Generalization Hierarchies | 1978 | SIGMOD | 0.00010694967 |
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| 1,811 | A Unified Approach to Functional Dependencies and Relations | 1975 | SIGMOD | 0.00010459687 |
| 13,062 | Algebraic Aspects of Relational Database Decomposition (Extended Abstract) | 1983 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 2,097 | Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries | 2018 | VLDB | 9.5439744e-05 |
| 4,409 | Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations | 1982 | SIGMOD | 6.2012852e-05 |
| 13,072 | A Systematic Approach to Relational Database Theory | 1982 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 303 | Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata | 1984 | PODS | 0.00028289399 |
| 14,259 | Using Design Axioms and Topology to Model Database Semantics | 1987 | VLDB | - |
| 7 | Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.0015464728 |
| 4,750 | Normalization and Optimization of Schema Mappings | 2009 | VLDB | 5.9424107e-05 |
| 120 | On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model | 1975 | SIGMOD | 0.00045634921 |