Incomplete relations are relations which contain null values, whose meaning is \value is at present unknown". Such relations give rise to two types of functional dependency (...
We study inference rules for multivalued dependencies in relational databases with null values (NMVDs). The definition of NMVDs is dependent on the underlying relation schema and ...
The implication of multivalued dependencies (MVDs) in relational databases has originally been defined in the context of some fixed finite universe (Fagin 1977, Zaniolo 1976). Whi...
Full hierarchical dependencies (FHDs) constitute a large class of relational dependencies. A relation exhibits an FHD precisely when it can be decomposed into at least two of its ...
Recently, an axiomatization for functional dependencies (FDs) and multivalued dependencies (MVDs) has been established where arbitrary attributes can be specified as NOT NULL. Tha...