The Nested List Normal Form for Functional and Multivalued Dependencies

The Nested List Normal Form is proposed as a syntactic normal form for semantically well-designed database schemata obtained from any arbitrary finite nesting of records and lists. The Nested List Normal Form is defined in terms of functional and multivalued dependencies, independent from any specific data model, and generalises the well-known Fourth Normal Form from relational databases in order to capture more application domains.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: FOIKS
• Authors: Sven Hartmann, Sebastian Link
• Keywords: FOIKS 2006, Information Management, List Normal Form, Normal Form, Syntactic Normal Form