Functional and multivalued dependencies in nested databases generated by record and list constructor

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 114-164

  Hartmann, Sven ^a   Link, Sebastian ^a   Schewe, Klaus Dieter ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Axiomatisation; Functional dependency; Independence; Lists; Multivalued dependency; Nested databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645688851     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10472-005-9015-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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