Windows On The World

Summary: Window functions are a semantic, database-wide abstraction and the basis for universal scheme interfaces, anchored by the unique role assumption. It contrasts computational and weak-inst definitions, surveys PIQUE's association-object window, and formalizes containment, faithfulness, and implicit objects. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2211
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 9.9176387e-05
Overall Rank: 1,965 | 86.35%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,531	Efficient Query Answering in the Representative Instance Approach	1985	PODS	8.5916172e-05
7,070	Optimal Computation of Total Projections with Unions of Simple Chase Join Expressions	1984	SIGMOD	4.8380576e-05
8,983	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	4.4134881e-05
9,098	Querying Weak Instances	1984	PODS	4.3917473e-05
12,844	Incomplete Path Expressions and their Disambiguation	1994	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,984	On Designing Database Schemes Bounded or Constant-time-maintainable with respect to Functional Dependencies	1987	PODS	4.1905499e-05
13,006	On the Properties and Characterisation of Connection-trap-free Schemes (Extended Abstract)	1986	PODS	4.1905499e-05
13,025	Chordality Properties on Graphs and Minimal Conceptual Connections in Semantic Data Models	1985	PODS	4.1905499e-05
13,031	A High-Level User Interface for Update and Retrieval in Relational Databases - Language Aspects	1985	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
38	Testing Implications Of Data Dependencies	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007528369
58	Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions	1978	SIGMOD	0.00064817807
131	Can We Use The Universal Instance Assumption Without Using Nulls?	1981	SIGMOD	0.00043719033
355	Synthesizing Independent Database Schemas	1979	SIGMOD	0.00026204925
924	The U. R. Strikes Back	1982	PODS	0.00015249498
1,038	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.0001450967
1,224	Improving Semantic Specification in a Relational Database	1979	SIGMOD	0.00013185926
1,227	A Generalized Access Path Model And Its Application To A Relational Data Base System	1976	SIGMOD	0.00013159117
3,339	A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model	1982	PODS	7.1989217e-05
3,481	Specifying Connections for a Universal Relation Scheme Database	1982	SIGMOD	7.0520694e-05
4,409	Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations	1982	SIGMOD	6.2012852e-05
6,743	An Algorithm For Servicing Multi-Relational Queries	1977	SIGMOD	4.9383908e-05

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