Entity-relationship and object-oriented data modeling - An experimental comparison of design quality

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-315

  Shoval, Peretz ^a   Shiran, Sagit ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conceptual schema; Data modeling; Database design; Entity relationship model; Experimentation; Object oriented model; Quality of design; Schema transformation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA; DATABASE DESIGN; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATION;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0031078530     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(97)88935-5     Document Type: Article

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