A vague multivalued data dependency

The work in this paper is an application of vague set theory in relational databases. It is well known that integrity constraints like functional dependency, multivalued dependency, etc. play a key role in any database design. In the present work, the authors introduce a new definition of vague multivalued dependency(VMVD), called α-VMVD, on the basis of α-equality of tuples as defined in the recent work on vague functional dependency [1] in 2012. Next, the definition has been shown to be consistent and finally a set of sound and complete inference axioms have been designed and verified for the α-VMVD.