Path Expressions in Databases (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Introduces path-expression framework to analyze consistency of database states with sets of functional dependencies via weak instances and CONS(R,F) (states of R consistent with F). Gives an iff characterization for CONS(R,F)⊆CONS(R,G) and a polynomial-time tableau/chase-style algorithm using merging arguments to decide these dependency comparisons. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 672
Venue: PODS
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,249 | 9.10%
DOI: 10.1145/588058.588101

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Authors

1. Marc H. Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{graham_pods83,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '83},
        title = {{Path Expressions in Databases (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588058.588101},
        doi = {10.1145/588058.588101},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Graham, Marc H.},
        year = {1983}
}

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40	Testing Implications Of Data Dependencies	1979	SIGMOD	0.00046918506

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