On Axiomatizing Multivalued Dependencies in Relational Databases
Alberto O. Mendelzon · Journal of the ACM · 1979
A complete set of inference rules for deriving multlvalued dependencies m a relational database has recently been presented.The questtons of independence and redundancy of these rules are mvesttgated and all mmunal complete subsets of the proposed set are determmed gEY WORDS ANn PaRAS~S multwalued dependency, complete ax~ornatlzatlon, reference rule, functional dependency, relational database, database, semanUcs of data ca CATEGORmS' 4.33, 4 34, 5 21