Querying a Multilevel Database: A Logical Analysis

Summary: New formal model and semantics for querying multilevel polyinstantiated databases; clearance-level complete, consistent views. Multilevel DBs as set of single-level DBs; PL with per-level models and optional schema hiding for multilevel semantics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8368
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 4.7180617e-05
Overall Rank: 7,525 | 47.66%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Frédéric Cuppens

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,709	Belief Reasoning in MLS Deductive Databases	1999	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,991	Entity Modeling in the MLS Relational Model	1992	VLDB	7.7707018e-05

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