This volume comprises the proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach held in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-9, 1992. It contains the full versions of all the 22 accepted papers selected from in total 64 submissions; in addition, the two invited talks by Scheer and by Tsichritzis and others are represented asfull papers and the two other invited speakers contribute extended abstracts. All the contributions describe original research related to theoretical or practical aspects of the Entity-Relationship Approach,reflecting the trend of recent years in a wide range of database research activities. In particular, the topics database design aspects, object-orientation, integrity constraints, query languages, knowledge-based techniques, and development of new applications are addressed.
Author(s): Peter P. Chen (auth.), G. Pernul, AM. Tjoa (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 645
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 444
Tags: Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Models and Principles; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
ER vs. OO....Pages 1-2
The next ten years of modeling, methodologies, and tools....Pages 3-6
Fundamentals of cardinality constraints....Pages 7-23
Evaluation of complex cardinality constraints....Pages 24-40
Local referential integrity....Pages 41-61
Entity tree clustering — A method for simplifying ER designs....Pages 62-78
A temporal statistical model for entity-relationship schemas....Pages 79-96
Semantic similarity relations in schema integration....Pages 97-120
Classifying and reusing conceptual schemas....Pages 121-138
Embedding data modelling in a general architecture for integrated information systems....Pages 139-161
The use of a lexicon to interpret ER diagrams: a LIKE project....Pages 162-177
An entity-relationship-based methodology for distributed database design: An integrated approach towards combined logical and distribution designs....Pages 178-193
A specification-based data model....Pages 194-209
Data dictionary design: a logic programming approach....Pages 210-225
Nesting quantification in a visual data manipulation language....Pages 226-242
An EER prototyping environment and its implementation in a datalog language....Pages 243-261
A theory for Entity-Relationship view updates....Pages 262-279
Transforming conceptual data models into an object model....Pages 280-298
Meta object management and its application to database evolution....Pages 299-321
Modelling of audio/video data....Pages 322-339
SUPER — Visual interaction with an object-based ER model....Pages 340-356
Natural language restatement of queries expressed in a graphical language....Pages 357-374
A temporal query language based on conceptual entities and roles....Pages 375-388
On the design of object-oriented databases....Pages 389-405
“Part” relations for object-oriented databases....Pages 406-422
Unified class evolution by object-oriented views....Pages 423-439
