Null Values in Data Base Management: A Denotational Semantics Approach
Summary: Null values analyzed via many-valued logic and denotational semantics; relational model redefined under this theory. Query evaluation treated as a continuous function; introduces a symbolic, economical algorithm for simple queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yannis Vassiliou (University of Toronto)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vassiliou_sigmod79,
title = {{Null Values in Data Base Management: A Denotational Semantics Approach}},
author = {Vassiliou, Yannis},
series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/582095.582123},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582123},
year = {1979}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 613 | Database Relations with Null Values (Extended Abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00015723523 |
| 1,818 | A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases | 1990 | VLDB | 9.6827488e-05 |
| 2,402 | Update Semantics for Incomplete Databases | 1985 | VLDB | 8.6276184e-05 |
| 3,174 | On the Correctness Criteria of Fine-Grained Access Control in Relational Databases | 2007 | VLDB | 7.6663399e-05 |
| 3,733 | Closed World Databases Opened Through Null Values | 1988 | VLDB | 7.1653591e-05 |
| 3,750 | Dependency Satisfaction in Databases with Incomplete Information | 1984 | VLDB | 7.1534069e-05 |
| 13,141 | A Family of Incomplete Relational Database Models | 1989 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,152 | A Sound and Complete Query Evaluation Algorithm for Relational Databases with Null Values | 1988 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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