On the design and maintenance of optimized relational representations of entity-relationship schemas
A method for obtaining optimized relational representations of database conceptual schemas in an extended entity-relationship model is first proposed....
View integration of behavior in object-oriented databases
Database schemas are often not de®ned by a single person but by several future users of the database who...
Analysis of binary/ternary cardinality combinations in entityrelationship modeling
In this paper, we discuss the simultaneous existence, and relationships, between binary and ternary relationships in entity-relationship (ER) modeling....
Hyper-semantic data modeling
This paper describes a new area of data modeling, a model in this new area, and the schema specification...
The category concept: An extension to’the entity-relationship model
An enhanced version of the Entity-Relationship (ER) data model called the Entity-CategoryRelationship (ECR) data model is presented. The principal...
A persistent complex object database language
To support a number of emerging applications we propose a persistent complex object database language which is "'value" based....
Component development and construction for database design
Principles for database modeling were developed and intensively investigated in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are based...
A formal approach databases
Object-oriented database systems are the focus of current research and development efforts. Yet, there is no commonly accepted object...
Relational database Entity-Relationship design based on the model
The Entity-Relationship (E-R) model is often recommended for use m the database design process because its concepts are percewed...
An OODB Part-Whole model: Semantics, notation and implementation
The notion of a part-whole relationship plays an important role when modeling data in many advanced application domains. It...
