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 ...

Transitive sharing upside While we have discussed a couple of clear negative examples, there are many ways transitive data relationships help us.

In this paper the relationship between transitive preference and the structure of the space on which preference is defined is studied in detail. The main results give conditions under which the ...