A Systematic Approach to Relational Database Theory

Summary: Proposes a conceptual schema: database schemas as views over atomic, self-explanatory relations. FDs become conceptual-schema constraints; MVDs and JDs are database-schema constraints deriving from data construction, enabling schema-equivalence reasoning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2225
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,260 | 9.03%
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582356

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Authors

1. Tomasz Imielinski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
2. Witold Lipski, Jr. (Polish Academy of Sciences)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{imielinski_sigmod82,
        title = {{A Systematic Approach to Relational Database Theory}},
        author = {Imielinski, Tomasz and Witold Lipski, Jr.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582353.582356},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582356},
        year = {1982}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,261	A Technique For Translating States Between Database Schemata	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
3,529	First Order Logic Formalization for Functional, Multivalued and Mutual Dependencies	1978	SIGMOD	7.3387532e-05
13,261	A Technique For Translating States Between Database Schemata	1982	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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