An Information-Theoretic Approach to Normal Forms for Relational and XML Data

Proceedings of the ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems

Volumn 22, Issue , 2003, Pages 15-26

  Arenas, Marcelo ^a   Libkin, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; XML;

NORMAL FORMS; NORMALIZATION;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 1142287643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/773153.773155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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