The Management of Probabilistic Data

  • Authors:
  • D. Barbará;H. Garcia-Molina;D. Porter

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

It is often desirable to represent in a database, entities whose properties cannot be deterministically classified. The authors develop a data model that includes probabilities associated with the values of the attributes. The notion of missing probabilities is introduced for partially specified probability distributions. This model offers a richer descriptive language allowing the database to more accurately reflect the uncertain real world. Probabilistic analogs to the basic relational operators are defined and their correctness is studied. A set of operators that have no counterpart in conventional relational systems is presented.