The nested list normal form for functional and multivalued dependencies

  • Authors:
  • Sven Hartmann;Sebastian Link

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Science Research Centre, Dept of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Information Science Research Centre, Dept of Information Systems, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • FoIKS'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

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.