Some results related to dense families of database relations

Thi Vu Duc and Nguyen Hoang Son: Some results related to dense families of database relations. In: Acta cybernetica, (17) 1. pp. 173-182. (2005)

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Abstract

The dense families of database relations were introduced by Järvinen [7]. The aim of this paper is to investigate some new properties of dense families of database relations, and their applications. That is, we characterize functional dependencies and minimal keys in terms of dense families. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for an abitrary family to be R— dense family. We prove that with a given relation R the equality set ER is an R—dense family whose size is at most m(m-1)/2, where m is the number of tuples in R. We also prove that the set of all minimal keys of relation R is the transversal hypergraph of the complement of the equality set ER. We give an effective algorithm finding all minimal keys of a given relation R. We also give an algorithm which from a given relation R finds a cover of functional dependencies that holds in R. The complexity of these algorithms is also esimated.

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Acta cybernetica
Date: 2005
Volume: 17
Number: 1
ISSN: 0324-721X
Page Range: pp. 173-182
Language: English
Place of Publication: Szeged
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/38519/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Számítástechnika, Kibernetika
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: 182. p. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 01. Natural sciences
01. Natural sciences > 01.02. Computer and information sciences
Date Deposited: 2016. Oct. 15. 12:25
Last Modified: 2022. Jun. 15. 12:57
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/12759

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