Expressing casual relationships in conceptual database schemas

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-232

  Ramesh, V ^a   Browne, Glenn J ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causation; Cognitive relationships; Conceptual schemas; Database design; Requirements determination; Semantic modeling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CAUSATION; COGNITIVE RELATIONSHIPS; CONCEPTUAL DATABASE SCHEMAS; SEMANTIC MODELING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033097291     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(98)10081-X     Document Type: Article

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