The Universal Relation Revisited.

@article{DBLP:journals/tods/Kent83,
  author    = {William Kent},
  title     = {The Universal Relation Revisited},
  journal   = {ACM Trans. Database Syst.},
  volume    = {8},
  number    = {4},
  year      = {1983},
  pages     = {644-648},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/319996.320019, db/journals/tods/Kent83.html},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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2. Jeffrey D. Ullman: Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems, Volume II. Computer Science Press 1989, ISBN 0-7167-8162-X
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4. Joseph A. Wald, Paul G. Sorenson: Resolving the Query Inference Problem Using Steiner Trees. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 9(3): 348-368(1984)