User performance differences between relational and entity relationship models: A summary review of the literature

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-61

  Chan, Hock C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

DATABASE DESIGN; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL; UPDATE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0031642631     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492998119689     Document Type: Article

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