Choices In Practical Data Design

Summary: Advocates cataloging multiple data designs for the same facts, decoupling design from semantic models to support planning and admin services. Proposes extending design methodologies to exploit option variety and notes options for semantic descriptions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7547
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 5.0113116e-05
Overall Rank: 6,559 | 54.38%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. W. Kent

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,493	A Formal View Integration Method	1986	SIGMOD	8.6513163e-05
7,531	On the Properties of Extended Inclusion Dependencies	1986	VLDB	4.7180617e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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