Re: Exciting Papers on Normalization in list-based data models

Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
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>>Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>>Did I already mention that there are new exciting papers on
>>normalization theory in list-based data models (as opposed to set-based
>>data models)? Pretty profound stuff. 

Be careful what you wish for ... :-)

I actually haven't finished reading them myself, it's not an easy read, but I saw the presentation at the last SIGMOD/PODS and that was quite impressive. At least it will give you an idea of what is happening at the moment.

• Multi-valued dependencies in the presence of lists. S. Hartmann and S. Link). In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems - PODS 2004.

To get an idea you can read the abstract at

http://springerlink.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=mftayltgum0tu6lx8ue3&referrer=parent&backto=issue,10,20;journal,130,1610;linkingpublicationresults,1:105633,1

There's more references on Sven Hartmann's home page. Unfortunately I didn't see much on-line. If you mail the authors they'll probably be happy to send you the paper.

• Jan Hidders