Incorporating cardinality constraints and synonym rules into conditional functional dependencies

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 783-789

  Chen, Wenguang ^a   Fan, Wenfei ^b,c   Ma, Shuai ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Databases; Specification languages

Indexed keywords

CARDINALITY CONSTRAINTS; DATABASES; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; EXPRESSIVE POWER; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES; IMPLICATION PROBLEMS; NP-COMPLETE; SATISFIABILITY;

LINGUISTICS; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 67349191465     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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