Re: Final CFP: XML Database Symposium (XSym03) _at_ VLDB 2003

"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_pandora.be> wrote in message news:n2x3b.6238$LD6.306225_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> That alone would certainly not have been enough. If I would have to
> summarize their major achievement then it is that they managed to
> characterize the classical normal forms in an information-theoretic way
and
> they managed to generalize this for the XML data model, which is important
> because the notion of "update anomaly" is less clear there, and justified
> that way a normal they had introduced earlier. This has (1) deepened our
> insight into the classical normal forms for the nested and flat relational
> model and (2) opened the way for more research on normal forms for more
> complex data models such as the XML data model.

I thought that Dalkilic&Robertson should be credited for #1 (for "flat" relations, at least). Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 03:22:32 CEST