REERM: Reenhancing the entity-relationship model

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 410-435

  González Jiménez, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Entity relationship model; Temporal databases

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODEL; TEMPORAL DATABASES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745598786     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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