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Uniform Comparison of Configuration Management Data Models

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Software Configuration Management (SCM 2001, SCM 2003)

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The data models of a series of 11 configuration management systems—of varying type and complexity—are represented using containment data models. Containment data models are a specialized form of entity-relationship model in which entities may be containers or atoms, and the only permitted form of relationship is inclusion or referential containment. By using entities to represent the native abstractions of each system, and containment relationships to model inclusion and identifier references, systems can be modeled uniformly, permitting consistent cross-comparison of systems.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA

    E. James Whitehead Jr. & Dorrit Gordon

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  1. Informatik III, RWTH Aachen, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Bernhard Westfechtel

  2. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    André van der Hoek

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Whitehead, E.J., Gordon, D. (2003). Uniform Comparison of Configuration Management Data Models. In: Westfechtel, B., van der Hoek, A. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM SCM 2001 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2649. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39195-9_6

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