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: 8559
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,945 | 45.50%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Frédéric Cuppens (Office National for Aeronautics and Space Studies)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cuppens_vldb96,
        title = {{Querying a Multilevel Database: A Logical Analysis}},
        author = {Cuppens, Frédéric},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {484},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,902	Belief Reasoning in MLS Deductive Databases	1999	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
4,026	Entity Modeling in the MLS Relational Model	1992	VLDB	6.9471535e-05

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