A VIEW CREATION SYSTEM FOR DATABASE DESIGN

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Authors: Veda Storey

Tags: 1986, conceptual modeling

RESEARCH PROBLEM A user view is a representation of reality relevant to a particular user or group of users for a specific purpose. User views are particularly important to logical data base design because they dictate what data and relationships are to be made available to the users. Historically, the generation of user views has relied heavily upon human experience and judgment rather than mechanistic algorithms. Therefore, the research question being addressed is: “Can the process of generating user views be automated in order to increase the quality and consistency of data base design while relying less on scarce expert human skills?

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