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First Order Logic Formalization for Functional, Multivalued and Mutual Dependencies

Summary: FOL is proposed as a unifying formalization for functional, multivalued, and mutual dependencies in relational databases. The paper shows logic-based expressions of dependencies and derives properties, arguing advantages over tailored formalisms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2135
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1978
Pagerank
7.3387532e-05
Overall Rank
3,529 | 75.79%
DOI
10.1145/509252.509269

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nicolas_sigmod78,
        title = {{First Order Logic Formalization for Functional, Multivalued and Mutual Dependencies}},
        author = {Nicolas, J. M.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '78},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509252.509269},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509252.509269},
        year = {1978}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
4,843 Notions of Dependency Satisfaction 1982 PODS 6.482729e-05
6,505 Inferences Involving Embedded Multivalued Dependencies and Transitive Dependencies 1980 SIGMOD 5.8583679e-05
13,260 A Systematic Approach to Relational Database Theory 1982 SIGMOD 5.093636e-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
495 A Complete Axiomatization For Functional And Multivalued Dependencies In Database Relations 1977 SIGMOD 0.00017513721
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