Temporal entity-relationship models - a survey

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 464-497

  Gregersen, Heidi ^b   Jensen, Christian S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODEL; TEMPORAL DATA MODELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032669412     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.774104     Document Type: Article

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