Closed World Databases Opened Through Null Values
Summary: Introduces locally controlled open-world databases, where nulls selectively open attributes, tuples, or relations within an otherwise closed-world schema. Distinguishes unknown, does-not-exist, and a novel open null, with formal semantics and extended relational operations. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Georg Gottlob (Vienna University of Technology)
- 2. Roberto Zicari (Polytechnic University of Milan)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gottlob_vldb88,
title = {{Closed World Databases Opened Through Null Values}},
author = {Gottlob, Georg and Zicari, Roberto},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '88},
pages = {50},
year = {1988}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 952 | Recovering Information from Summary Data | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00013010681 |
| 2,934 | Data Exchange and Incomplete Information | 2006 | PODS | 7.9451055e-05 |
| 4,377 | Data Exchange and Schema Mappings in Open and Closed Worlds | 2008 | PODS | 6.7358004e-05 |
| 5,378 | Troubles with Nulls, Views from the Users | 2022 | VLDB | 6.2406439e-05 |
| 5,616 | Capturing Missing Tuples and Missing Values | 2010 | PODS | 6.1493013e-05 |
| 5,617 | Relative Information Completeness | 2009 | PODS | 6.1493013e-05 |
| 11,275 | Hardware-Efficient Data Imputation through DBMS Extensibility | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.0007727299 |
| 346 | A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00020654241 |
| 538 | Non First Normal Form Relations To Represent Hierarchically Organized Data | 1984 | PODS | 0.00016919845 |
| 613 | Database Relations with Null Values (Extended Abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00015723523 |
| 627 | Data Structures for an Integrated Data Base Management and Information Retrieval System | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00015634312 |
| 1,380 | Null Values in Data Base Management: A Denotational Semantics Approach | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00010965714 |
| 2,764 | Determining When a Structure Is a Nested Relation | 1985 | VLDB | 8.1535144e-05 |
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