On The Integrity Of Databases With Incomplete Information
Summary: Defines meaningfulness of incomplete databases via existence of a completion satisfying integrity constraints under two notions: open-world (extension) and closed-world (conservative extension). Shows the closed-world case is strictly harder than open-world in both computational complexity and logical axiomatizability, and both are harder than integrity checking for complete-information databases. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Moshe Y. Vardi (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vardi_pods86,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '86},
title = {{ON THE INTEGRITY OF DATABASES WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/6012.15419},
doi = {10.1145/6012.15419},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Vardi, Moshe Y.},
year = {1986}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,904 | Horn Tables - An Efficient Tool For Handling Incomplete Information In Databases | 1989 | PODS | 7.9757931e-05 |
| 2,934 | Data Exchange and Incomplete Information | 2006 | PODS | 7.9451055e-05 |
| 3,619 | OLAP over Imprecise Data with Domain Constraints | 2007 | VLDB | 7.2508853e-05 |
| 5,616 | Capturing Missing Tuples and Missing Values | 2010 | PODS | 6.1493013e-05 |
| 5,617 | Relative Information Completeness | 2009 | PODS | 6.1493013e-05 |
| 6,501 | Representing and Querying XML with Incomplete Information | 2001 | PODS | 5.8604724e-05 |
| 6,852 | When is Naive Evaluation Possible? | 2013 | PODS | 5.7540317e-05 |
| 7,462 | Incomplete Information and Certain Answers in General Data Models | 2011 | PODS | 5.61159e-05 |
| 9,646 | Computing Full Disjunctions | 2003 | PODS | 5.243371e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 602 | On the Semantics of Updates in Databases | 1983 | PODS | 0.00015856828 |
| 1,216 | Partition Semantics for Relations | 1985 | PODS | 0.00011633715 |
| 4,659 | On The Complexity And Axiomatizability Of Consistent Database States | 1984 | PODS | 6.5797982e-05 |
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