Database Description with SDM: A Semantic Database Model

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1981, Pages 351-386

  Hammer, Michael ^a   McLeod, Dennis ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

database definition; database management; database modeling; database models; database semantics; logical database design

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0019612794     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/319587.319588     Document Type: Article

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