The semantics of reifying n-ary relationships as classes

ICEIS 2002 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 580-586

  Dahchour, Mohamed ^a   Pirotte, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Information modeling; N ary relationship reification

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BINARY PROJECTIONS; BINARY RELATIONSHIPS; INFORMATION MODELING; RELATIONAL MODEL;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33745925074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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