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...
Specification preservation in schema transformations – application to semantics and statistics
Software design can be modeled as a sequence of transformations applied on initial specifications. In the database domain too,...
Reverse engineering of relational databases: Extraction of an EER model from a relational database
A methodology for extracting an extended Entity-Relationship (EER) model from a relational database is presented. Through a combination of...
Database reverse engineering: From the Relational to the Binary Relationship model
This paper describes an algorithmic method for transforming a relational database schema to a binaryrelationship one. The source schema...
