Browsing in a Loosely Structured Database

Summary: Proposes loosely structured databases that avoid strict schema/data dichotomy, storing heaps of facts. Introduces a unified rule/integrity mechanism and browsing-based retrieval (navigation and probing) as core methods, grounded in a predicate-logic query language. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2309
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,484 | 0.63%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602286

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Authors

1. Amihai Motro (University of Southern California)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{motro_sigmod84,
        title = {{Browsing in a Loosely Structured Database}},
        author = {Motro, Amihai},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602286},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602286},
        year = {1984}
}

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