REAL-WORLD MVD's

Summary: Analyzes real-world multivalued dependencies (MVDs) to measure needed complexity. Shows natural MVDs are conflict-free, enabling a unique 4NF dependency-preserving schema; non-conflict-free sets miss semantics, fixed by enforcing conflict-freedom. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4b74cf15ceaff40e
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1981
Pagerank: 8.2708541e-05
Overall Rank: 2,581 | 82.65%
DOI: 10.1145/582318.582337

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Edward Sciore (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sciore_sigmod81,
        title = {{REAL-WORLD MVD's}},
        author = {Sciore, Edward},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '81},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582318.582337},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582318.582337},
        year = {1981}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,084	A Normal Form for Nested Relations	1985	PODS	0.00012112852
2,163	Improving Database Schemes by Adding Attributes	1983	PODS	8.9350033e-05
3,287	Comprehensive Approach to the Design of Relational Database Schemes	1984	VLDB	7.4551258e-05
3,575	Elimination of Intersection Anomalies from Database Schemes (Extended Abstract)	1983	PODS	7.194079e-05
4,349	Database Decomposition into Fourth Normal Form	1983	VLDB	6.6462792e-05
13,517	Dependency Characterizations For Acyclic Database Schemes	1984	PODS	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
41	Testing Implications Of Data Dependencies	1979	SIGMOD	0.00045899672

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