Design Guidelines for Reducing Redundancy in Relational and XML Data

In this dissertation, we propose new design guidelines to reduce the amount of redundancy that databases carry. We use techniques from information theory to define a measure that evaluates a database design based on the worst possible redundancy carried in the instances. We then continue by revisiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kolahi, Solmaz
Other Authors: Libkin, Leonid
Format: Others
Language:en_ca
Published: 2008
Subjects:
XML
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11221