Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...
With the advent of XML as a data representation and exchange format over the web, a massive amount of data is being stored in XML. The task of data transformation for integration ...
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....
Armstrong databases are a popular tool in example-based database design. An Armstrong database for a given constraint set from a fixed constraint class Z satisfies precisely those ...
This paper investigates the discovery of conditional functional dependencies (CFDs). CFDs are a recent extension of functional dependencies (FDs) by supporting patterns of semantic...
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, ...