Hierarchical ER diagrams (HERD) - The method and experimental evaluation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2784, Issue , 2003, Pages 264-274

  Shoval, Peretz ^a   Danoch, Revital ^a   Balaban, Mira ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PACKAGING MACHINES; WEB SERVICES;

BOTTOM UP METHODS; COMPREHENSION TASKS; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS; ER DIAGRAMS; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; PACKAGING OPERATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0242308094     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45275-1_24     Document Type: Review

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