ER model clustering as an aid for user communication and documentation in database design

1 August 1989

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 32 (8) , 975-987
https://doi.org/10.1145/65971.65976

Abstract

Entity-relationship clustering promotes the simplicity that is vital for fast end-user comprehension, as well as the complexity at a more detailed level to satisfy the database designer's need for extended semantic expression in the conceptual model.

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