Physical database design for relational databases
This paper describes the concepts used in the implementation of DBDSGN, an experimental physical design tool for relational databases...
An improved third normal form for relational databases
In this paper, we show that some Codd third normal form relations may contain “superfluous” attributes because the definitions...
An ontological analysis of the relationship construct in conceptual modeling
Conceptual models or semantic data models were developed to capture the meaning of an application domain as perceived by...
The role of domain ontologies in database design: An ontology management and conceptual modeling...
Database design is difficult because it involves a database designer understanding an application and translating the design requirements into...
Towards a semantic view of an extended entity-relationship model
Nearly all query languages discussed recently for the Entity-Relationship (ER) model do not possess a formal semantics. Languages are...
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
A data model, called the entity-relationship model, is proposed. This model incorporates some of the important semantic information about...
Improving database design through the analysis of relationships
Much of the work on conceptual modeling involves the use of an entity-relationship model in which binary relationships appear...
Statistical database design
The security problem of a statistical database is to limit the use of the database so that no sequence...
Database design with common sense business reasoning and learning
Automated database design systems embody knowledge about the database design process. However, their lack of knowledge about the domains...
Tools and transformations—rigorous and otherwise—for practical database design
We describe the tools and theory of a comprehensive system for database design, and show how they work together...
