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ACSC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Domination Normal Form - Decomposing Relational Database Schemas
A common approach in designing relational databases is to start with a universal relation schema, which is then decomposed into multiple subschemas. A good choice of subschemas ca...
Henning Köhler
PODS
2003
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin
SSD
1993
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Realms: A Foundation for Spatial Data Types in Database Systems
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Ralf Hartmut Güting, Markus Schneider
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Foundations of RDF Databases
The goal of this paper is to give an overview of the basics of the theory of RDF databases. We provide a formal definition of RDF that includes the features that distinguish this m...
Claudio Gutierrez