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Representing Hierarchical Relationships in INM

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2014)

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Real-world organizations has various natural and complex relationships with all kinds of people and other organizations. Such relationships may form complex hierarchical or composite structures. Existing data models such as relational, object-oriented, or object-relational models oversimplify even ignore these relationships and their semantics so that the semantics has to be dealt with by the applications. To solve this problem, we present a concise but expressive language to naturally and directly represent the semantics of complex relationships in the real-world entities.

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61202100, 61272110 and China Scholarship Council under Grant No. [2013]3018.

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  1. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada

    Mengchi Liu & Jie Hu

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hubei University, China

    Jie Hu

  3. School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China

    Liu Chen & Xuhui Li

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  1. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, 140 St. George St., M5S 3G6, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Eric Yu

  2. Dept of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

    Gillian Dobbie

  3. Lehrstuhl Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstr. 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

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  4. Penn State University, 316B Information Sciences and Technology Building, 16802, University Park, PA, USA

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Liu, M., Hu, J., Chen, L., Li, X. (2014). Representing Hierarchical Relationships in INM. In: Yu, E., Dobbie, G., Jarke, M., Purao, S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12206-9_24

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