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Matúš, František

Abstract functional dependency structures. (English) Zbl 0727.68028

Theor. Comput. Sci. 81, No. 1, 117-126 (1991).
The functional dependency (FD) is represented in a matroid like manner. It is shown that this framework covers many important particular cases, including FD-relations in a database. A Galois connection of the FD- relations with closure systems is elaborated.
Reviewer: M.Zimand (Bucureşti)

Cited in 7 Documents

MSC:

68P15 Database theory

Keywords:

functional dependency
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\textit{F. Matúš}, Theor. Comput. Sci. 81, No. 1, 117--126 (1991; Zbl 0727.68028)
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