A declarative query approach to object identification

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Authors: Martin Gogolla

Tags: 1995, conceptual modeling

Object identification in data models, especially in semantic, Entity-Relationship, and Object-Oriented data models is studied. Various known approaches to object identification axe shown, and an alternative proposal to the topic is put forward. The main new idea is to attach to each object type an arbitrary query in order to observe a unique, identifying property of objects of the corresponding type.

Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0020521