Normal Forms for Characteristic Functions on n-ary Relations.
Jan van EijckPublished in: J. Log. Comput. (2005)
Keyphrases
- normal form
- data dependencies
- database design
- relational databases
- database theory
- functional dependencies
- relational algebra
- relational calculus
- null values
- formal definitions
- information content
- multi valued
- relational database theory
- set of functional dependencies
- nested relations
- prime implicates
- databases
- conjunctive queries
- object oriented
- data model
- database systems