A generic model for 3-dimensional conceptual modelling

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-161

  Creasy, P N ^b   Proper, H A ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conceptual Data Modelling; ER; Generic Data Models; NIAM; Object Orientation; OMT; ORM; Schema Abstraction

Indexed keywords

DATA SIMULATION;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030262084     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-023X(95)00043-R     Document Type: Article

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