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Enhancing Entity-Relationship Schemata for Conceptual Database Structure Models

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2015)

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The paper aims at development of well-founded notions of database structure models that are specified in entity-relationship modelling languages. These notions reflect the functions a model fulfills in utilisation scenarios.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, 24098, Kiel, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim & Marina Tropmann-Frick

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  1. Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Paul Johannesson

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Mong Li Lee

  3. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  4. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Andreas L. Opdahl

  5. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Óscar Pastor López

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Thalheim, B., Tropmann-Frick, M. (2015). Enhancing Entity-Relationship Schemata for Conceptual Database Structure Models. In: Johannesson, P., Lee, M., Liddle, S., Opdahl, A., Pastor López, Ó. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3_47

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