@InProceedings{nakos_et_al:LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.21, author = {Nakos, Vasileios and Ngo, Hung Q. and Tsourakakis, Charalampos E.}, title = {{Targeted Least Cardinality Candidate Key for Relational Databases}}, booktitle = {28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2025)}, pages = {21:1--21:18}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-364-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2025}, volume = {328}, editor = {Roy, Sudeepa and Kara, Ahmet}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.21}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-229628}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2025.21}, annote = {Keywords: functional dependencies, candidate key, approximation algorithms, hardness} }