Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach

Summary: Proposes statistical constraints—probabilistic integrity rules that encode embedded attribute relations to improve database correctness. Outlines extraction and enforcement methods and offers a preliminary performance evaluation on a real-world DB, highlighting errors beyond conventional constraints. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2864
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,994 | 10.85%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223840

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Authors

1. Wen-Chi Hou (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
2. Zhongyang Zhang (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hou_sigmod95,
        title = {{Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach}},
        author = {Hou, Wen-Chi and Zhang, Zhongyang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223840},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223840},
        year = {1995}
}

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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
13	Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases	1993	SIGMOD	0.0006567919
146	On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00029540467
541	Efficient Monitoring of Database Assertions	1978	SIGMOD	0.00016860824
598	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015910777
1,428	Implementing Large Production Systems in a DBMS Environment: Concepts and Algorithms	1988	SIGMOD	0.00010811922
1,662	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	0.00010075123
2,009	Rule Condition Testing and Action Execution in Ariel	1992	SIGMOD	9.3096289e-05
2,492	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	8.5073897e-05
6,331	Index Support for Rule Activation	1993	SIGMOD	5.9108389e-05

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