On Representing Indefinite and Maybe Information in Relational Databases: A Generalization.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icde/LiuS90,
  author    = {Ken-Chih Liu and
               Rajshekhar Sunderraman},
  title     = {On Representing Indefinite and Maybe Information in Relational
               Databases: A Generalization},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Data Engineering,
               February 5-9, 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year      = {1990},
  isbn      = {0-8186-2025-0},
  pages     = {495-502},
  ee        = {db/conf/icde/LiuS90.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/icde/90},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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