Modeling temporal dynamics for business systems

Journal of Database Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 21-36

  Allen, Gove N ^a   March, Salvatore T ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Entity relationship models; Event representation; Temporal data models; Temporal databases; Time semantics

Indexed keywords

DATA DESCRIPTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODELS; EVENT REPRESENTATION; TEMPORAL DATA MODELS; TEMPORAL DATABASES; TIME SEMANTICS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0348170951     PISSN: 10638016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdm.2003070102     Document Type: Article

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