Incomplete Objects - A Data Model for Design and Planning Applications
Summary: Introduces OR-objects to model incomplete specifications as possible-worlds for design/planning data. Explores interpretations vs the database, hypothetical queries, complexity, and gaps like staged coexistence, separation of representation and interpretation, and nondeterminism. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University)
- 2. Shamim Naqvi (Bell Communications Research)
- 3. Kumar Vadaparty (Rutgers University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{imielinski_sigmod91,
title = {{Incomplete Objects - A Data Model for Design and Planning Applications}},
author = {Imielinski, Tomasz and Naqvi, Shamim and Vadaparty, Kumar},
series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/115790.115838},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115838},
year = {1991}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 860 | Aggregation and Ordering in Factorised Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00013560445 |
| 2,392 | FDB: A Query Engine for Factorised Relational Databases | 2012 | VLDB | 8.6404947e-05 |
| 2,514 | From Complete to Incomplete Information and Back | 2007 | SIGMOD | 8.4818577e-05 |
| 4,522 | Semantic Representations and Query Languages for Or-sets | 1993 | PODS | 6.6466406e-05 |
| 5,378 | Troubles with Nulls, Views from the Users | 2022 | VLDB | 6.2406439e-05 |
| 8,008 | Efficient Recovery of Missing Events | 2013 | VLDB | 5.5077375e-05 |
| 12,338 | Demonstration of the FDB Query Engine for Factorised Databases | 2012 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,993 | Normalizing Incomplete Databases | 1995 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,022 | Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types | 1994 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,043 | Materialization: a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern | 1994 | VLDB | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 355 | Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00020351749 |
| 740 | O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model | 1988 | SIGMOD | 0.00014482241 |
| 849 | Object-Oriented Database Systems | 1988 | PODS | 0.00013620915 |
| 13,129 | Complexity of Query Processing in Databases with OR-Objects | 1989 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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