Measuring the quality of entity relationship diagrams

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

Volumn 1920, Issue , 2000, Pages 513-526

  Genero, Marcela ^a   Jiménez, Luis ^a   Piattini, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE;

CONCEPTUAL DATA MODELS; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DATABASE DESIGN; ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS; FUZZY REGRESSIONS; REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880739619     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45393-8_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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