Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '92 de Günther Pernul

Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '92

Günther Pernul

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This volume comprises the proceedings of the EleventhInternational Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approachheld in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-9, 1992. It containsthe full versions of all the 22 accepted papers selectedfrom in total 64 submissions; in addition, the two invitedtalks by Scheer and by Tsichritzis and others arerepresented asfull papers and the two other invitedspeakers contribute extended abstracts.All the contributions describe original research related totheoretical or practical aspects of the Entity-RelationshipApproach,reflecting the trend of recent years in a widerange of database research activities. In particular, thetopics database design aspects, object-orientation,integrity constraints, query languages, knowledge-basedtechniques, and development of new applications areaddressed.

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ER vs. OO.- The next ten years of modeling, methodologies, and tools.- Fundamentals of cardinality constraints.- Evaluation of complex cardinality constraints.- Local referential integrity.- Entity tree clustering — A method for simplifying ER designs.- A temporal statistical model for entity-relationship schemas.- Semantic similarity relations in schema integration.- Classifying and reusing conceptual schemas.- Embedding data modelling in a general architecture for integrated information systems.- The use of a lexicon to interpret ER diagrams: a LIKE project.- An entity-relationship-based methodology for distributed database design: An integrated approach towards combined logical and distribution designs.- A specification-based data model.- Data dictionary design: a logic programming approach.- Nesting quantification in a visual data manipulation language.- An EER prototyping environment and its implementation in a datalog language.- A theory for Entity-Relationship view updates.- Transforming conceptual data models into an object model.- Meta object management and its application to database evolution.- Modelling of audio/video data.- SUPER — Visual interaction with an object-based ER model.- Natural language restatement of queries expressed in a graphical language.- A temporal query language based on conceptual entities and roles.- On the design of object-oriented databases.- “Part” relations for object-oriented databases.- Unified class evolution by object-oriented views.