Authors: I. Petrounias
Tags: 1997, conceptual modeling
Conceptual modelling is the activity of describing part of the real world for purposes of communication and understanding. Any conceptual modelling approach aiming to do this accurately must offer support for data changing over time. This paper presents a development framework for Temporal Information Systems. It is based on a Fact Based Model with time support. The mapping of the model onto a relational database is described and an algebra for it is defined, the operations of which operate on facts at the conceptual level. A data definition and manipulation language is defined based on the algebra and operates at the conceptual schema level rather than the database one, thus requiring little or no knowledge from the users about SQL or about how the database itself is organised.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63699-4_5
