A Mathematical Modeling Approach to the Automatic Selection of Database Designs

Summary: Mathematical modeling enables automatic DB-design selection via an analytic model: parametric descriptions, costing, evaluation interface, and search across designs. Virtual record-frame storage enables updates with minimal disruption; accuracy within 4% on problems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2137
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1978
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,277 | 8.91%
DOI: 10.1145/509252.509272

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Authors

1. Salvatore T. March (University of Rhode Island)
2. Dennis G. Severance (University of Minnesota)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{march_sigmod78,
        title = {{A Mathematical Modeling Approach to the Automatic Selection of Database Designs}},
        author = {March, Salvatore T. and Severance, Dennis G.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '78},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509252.509272},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509252.509272},
        year = {1978}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,027	Application Of An Analytical Model To Evaluate Storage Structures	1976	SIGMOD	9.2876338e-05
6,993	A Relational View of the Data Independent Accessing Model	1976	SIGMOD	5.7303405e-05

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