Generic Relationship Types

In the four preceding chapters, we studied relationship types without taking into account their particular meaning. In general, the meanings of the relationship types existing in a schema are very diverse. However, there are some relationship types that appear in many schemas and even several times...

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Published inConceptual Modeling of Information Systems pp. 137 - 156
Main Author Olivé, Antoni
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2007
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Subjects
Conceptual Schema
Derivation Rule
Entity Type
Local Dependency
Relationship Type
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Summary:In the four preceding chapters, we studied relationship types without taking into account their particular meaning. In general, the meanings of the relationship types existing in a schema are very diverse. However, there are some relationship types that appear in many schemas and even several times in the same schema. They are the subject of this chapter: in Sect. 7.1 we define them, and in Sect. 7.2 we show how they can be represented in an information system.
ISBN:9783642072567
3642072569
3540393897
9783540393894
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-39390-0_7