An Analysis of the Structural Validity of Unary and Binary Relationships in Entity Relationship Modeling

Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Information Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 329-334

  Dullea, James ^a   Song, Il Yeol ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY RELATIONSHIP; ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP (ER) DIAGRAM;

DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642347934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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