Entity-Relationship Approach — ER '92 [electronic resource] : 11th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1992 Proceedings / edited by G. Pernul, AM. Tjoa.

ER vs. OO -- The next ten years of modeling, methodologies, and tools -- Fundamentals of cardinality constraints -- Evaluation of complex cardinality constraints -- Local referential integrity -- Entity tree clustering — A method for simplifying ER designs -- A temporal statistical model for entity-relationship schemas -- Semantic similarity relations in schema integration -- Classifying and reusing conceptual schemas -- Embedding data modelling in a general architecture for integrated information systems -- The use of a lexicon to interpret ER diagrams: a LIKE project -- An entity-relationship-based methodology for distributed database design: An integrated approach towards combined logical and distribution designs -- A specification-based data model -- Data dictionary design: a logic programming approach -- Nesting quantification in a visual data manipulation language -- An EER prototyping environment and its implementation in a datalog language -- A theory for Entity-Relationship view updates -- Transforming conceptual data models into an object model -- Meta object management and its application to database evolution -- Modelling of audio/video data -- SUPER — Visual interaction with an object-based ER model -- Natural language restatement of queries expressed in a graphical language -- A temporal query language based on conceptual entities and roles -- On the design of object-oriented databases -- “Part” relations for object-oriented databases -- Unified class evolution by object-oriented views.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach held in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-9, 1992. It contains the full versions of all the 22 accepted papers selected from in total 64 submissions; in addition, the two invited talks by Scheer and by Tsichritzis and others are represented asfull papers and the two other invited speakers contribute extended abstracts. All the contributions describe original research related to theoretical or practical aspects of the Entity-Relationship Approach,reflecting the trend of recent years in a wide range of database research activities. In particular, the topics database design aspects, object-orientation, integrity constraints, query languages, knowledge-based techniques, and development of new applications are addressed.