The Entity-Relationship Model—toward a Unified View of Data

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1976, Pages 9-36

  Chen, Peter Pin Shan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Base Task Group; data definition and manipulation; data integrity and consistency; data models; database design; entity set model; entity relationship model; logical view of data; network model; relational model; semantics of data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976766949     PISSN: 03625915     EISSN: 15574644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/320434.320440     Document Type: Article

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