The integrity of database systems is increasingly dependent on maintaining high data quality while enforcing robust consistency rules. Data quality encompasses the accuracy, completeness, and ...

Abstract: This paper develops a technique for detecting violations of conditional functional dependencies in distributed database systems. For a given database that has a set of functional ...

Abstract: Web structure mining is the process of using graph theory to analyse the node and connection structure of a web site. A large number of web pages contain data structure in the form of “lists ...

A direct relationship between data elements in a relational database. Functional dependency (FD) states that one data element is dependent on another. For example, social security number (SSN), ...

An indirect relationship between data elements in a database. For example, social security number is a transitive dependency of date-of-birth (SSN->DOB), because it is dependent on name (SSN->NAME), ...