Entity-relationship and object-oriented model automatic clustering

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-117

  Akoka, Jacky ^a   Comyn Wattiau, I ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering; Conceptual database design; Entity relationship model; Object oriented model; Semantic distances

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SEMANTICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030261095     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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