Axiomatizing functional dependencies in the higher-order entity-relationship model

  • Authors:
  • Sven Hartmann;Anne Hoffmann;Sebastian Link;Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Science Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Data and Knowledge Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria;Information Science Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Information Science Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A finite axiomatization of functional dependencies on conceptual database schemata is presented which naturally generalizes the well-known Armstrong axioms. The underlying conceptual data model is the Higher-Order Entity-Relationship Model.