Inference Rules for Functional and Inclusion Dependencies

Summary: Provides a sound and complete set of inference rules for the combined implication problem of functional and inclusion dependencies (entailment over all finite and infinite databases). The rules deliberately violate the “natural” axiomatization conditions of [5], thereby circumventing prior negative results. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 646
Venue: PODS
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 9.9639379e-05
Overall Rank: 1,954 | 86.41%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. John C. Mitchell

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
989	Relational Transducers for Electronic Commerce	1998	PODS	0.00014814282
1,349	Formal Limits on the Automatic Generation and Maintenance of Integrity Constraints	1987	PODS	0.00012436377
2,481	LAURA: A Formal Data Model and her Logical Design Methodology	1983	VLDB	8.6870033e-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
8	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0015385917
104	Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00048766186
144	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00041462501
170	A Complete Axiomatization For Functional And Multivalued Dependencies In Database Relations	1977	SIGMOD	0.0003886136
1,039	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.00014489585
2,032	The Implication And Finite Implication Problems For Typed Template Dependencies	1982	PODS	9.7332616e-05

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