A Data Manipulation Model: An Extension Of The Alpha Expression

Summary: Extends alpha-expression to support heterogeneous value-sets and aggregate operators within the relational calculus and target list. Also introduces imaginary tuples to simplify traditional data-processing descriptions and enable practical, efficient implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7632
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 13,041 | 9.28%
DOI: -

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1. Isamu Kobayashi

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8	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0015385917

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