Independent Database Schemas (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Complete characterization of schemas that admit no interrelation constraints under the weak-instance semantics (a weakened universal-relation assumption). Focuses on JD+FD constraints and pinpoints exactly when admissible states coincide with a weak instance. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 627
Venue: PODS
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 0.00014426824
Overall Rank: 742 | 94.92%
DOI: 10.1145/588111.588144

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Marc H. Graham (University of Toronto)
2. Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{graham_pods82,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '82},
        title = {{Independent Database Schemas (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588111.588144},
        doi = {10.1145/588111.588144},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Graham, Marc H. and Yannakakis, Mihalis},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,417	On Computing Restricted Projections of Representative Instances	1985	PODS	0.00010839353
2,124	Improving Database Schemes by Adding Attributes	1983	PODS	9.1371046e-05
3,527	Functional Dependencies on Cyclic Database Schemes	1983	SIGMOD	7.3428228e-05
3,551	Efficient Query Answering in the Representative Instance Approach	1985	PODS	7.3196924e-05
4,843	Notions of Dependency Satisfaction	1982	PODS	6.482729e-05
5,351	Constant Time Maintenance or The Triumph of the fd.	1986	PODS	6.2533477e-05
6,153	Independent and Separable Database Schemes	1983	PODS	5.9569613e-05
7,132	Optimal Computation of Total Projections with Unions of Simple Chase Join Expressions	1984	SIGMOD	5.694968e-05
8,297	Independence-reducible Database Schemes	1988	PODS	5.4574671e-05
8,298	A Characterization of Constant-time-maintainability for BCNF Database Schemes	1988	SIGMOD	5.4574671e-05
8,977	Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas	1983	SIGMOD	5.3406923e-05
9,646	Computing Full Disjunctions	2003	PODS	5.243371e-05
13,120	Polynomial Time Designs toward Both BCNF and Efficient Data Manipulation	1990	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,121	Efficient Updates to Independent Schemes in the Weak Instance Model	1990	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,134	Can Constant-time Maintainability Be More Practical?	1989	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,145	Decomposition of Relational Schemata into Components Defined by Both Projection and Restriction	1988	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,171	On Designing Database Schemes Bounded or Constant-time-maintainable with respect to Functional Dependencies	1987	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,173	A New Basis for the Weak Instance Model	1987	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,184	Independent Database Schemes Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies	1987	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,193	On the Properties and Characterisation of Connection-trap-free Schemes (Extended Abstract)	1986	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,250	Algebraic Aspects of Relational Database Decomposition (Extended Abstract)	1983	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
266	Can We Use The Universal Instance Assumption Without Using Nulls?	1981	SIGMOD	0.00022823892

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