Unifying Functional and Multivalued Dependencies for Relational Database Design
Summary: 'Envelope' of MVDs reduces FD+MVD design to MVD-only reasoning and proves 4NF/BCNF equivalence between D and its envelope. Extend conflict‑free to 'extended conflict‑free' with polytime tests and construction of dep‑preserving, acyclic, join‑lossless 4NF decompositions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 6,180 | The Design of non-1NF Relational Databases into Nested Normal Form | 1987 | SIGMOD | 5.1686632e-05 |
| 12,973 | Logical Design of Relational Database Schemes | 1987 | PODS | 4.1945683e-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 |
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| 1,052 | A Normal Form for Nested Relations | 1985 | PODS | 0.00014436103 |
| 3,047 | Comprehensive Approach to the Design of Relational Database Schemes | 1984 | VLDB | 7.6561027e-05 |
| 3,090 | Database Decomposition Into Fourth Normal Form | 1983 | VLDB | 7.582872e-05 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 356 | Synthesizing Independent Database Schemas | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00026034713 |
| 3,361 | Functional Dependencies on Cyclic Database Schemes | 1983 | SIGMOD | 7.1735665e-05 |
| 170 | A Complete Axiomatization For Functional And Multivalued Dependencies In Database Relations | 1977 | SIGMOD | 0.0003886136 |
| 1,052 | A Normal Form for Nested Relations | 1985 | PODS | 0.00014436103 |
| 3,047 | Comprehensive Approach to the Design of Relational Database Schemes | 1984 | VLDB | 7.6561027e-05 |
| 6,180 | The Design of non-1NF Relational Databases into Nested Normal Form | 1987 | SIGMOD | 5.1686632e-05 |
| 3,090 | Database Decomposition Into Fourth Normal Form | 1983 | VLDB | 7.582872e-05 |
| 2,026 | REAL-WORLD MVD's | 1981 | SIGMOD | 9.7457158e-05 |
| 6,603 | Properties Of Database Schemata With Functional Dependencies | 1984 | PODS | 4.9971153e-05 |
| 12,973 | Logical Design of Relational Database Schemes | 1987 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |