Paper Info
Title
The Semantics of Reifying n-ary Relationships as Classes
Abstract
Many data models do not directly support -ary relationships. In most cases, they are either reduced to some of their binary projections or directly translated into an -ary "relationship relation" in the relational model. This paper addresses the reification of an -ary relationship into a new class with binary relationships and studies the preservation of semantics in the translation. It shows that some semantics may be lost unless some explicit constraints are added to the binary schema.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
ICEIS
information modeling,n-ary relationship reification,information model,relational model,data model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,Data modeling,Computer science,New class,Relational model,Schema (psychology),Reification (Marxism),Semantics,Binary number
Conference
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.81
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Dahchour17710.06
Alain Pirotte2916260.52