Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '93: 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, Arlington, Texas, USA, December 15 - 17, 199 [Paperback]

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Entity-Relationship Approach, held in Arlington, Texas in December 1993; it contains the revised versions of 42 papers selected for presentation at the conference from a total of 87 submissions.
The volume presents many of the most important results on the ERA published since the predecessor conference ER '92. It is organized in sections on object-oriented models, query languages, applications of the ER model, knowledge-based modeling, data modeling, schema integration, reuse and reengineering, integrating ER and object-orientation, conceptual clustering, modeling time and data semantics.The Object Flow Model: A formal framework for describing the dynamic construction, destruction and interaction of complex objects.- On complex objects and versioning in complex environments.- Application and system prototyping via an extensible object-oriented environment.- Reflection in a uniform behavioral object model.- Relative constraints in ER data models.- Design and implementation of derived entities.- Searching for compositions in ER schemes.- Enhancing the quality of conceptual database specifications through validation.- Functional dependencies generalized for temporal databases that include object-identity.- Temporal extensions to a uniform behavioral object model.- TOOSQL- a temporal object-oriented query language.- A taxonomy for schema versioning based on the relational and Entity Relationship Models.- Neighborhood/conceptual query answering with imprecise/incomplete data.- The entity-relationship model for multilevel security.- HDM2: Extending the E-R approach to hypermedia application design.- Database schema design: A perspective from natural language techniques to validation and view integration.- Transformation of requirement specifications expressed in natural language into an EER model.- A commonsense reasoning facility based on the entity-relationship model.- DETERM: Detel³Ù