IAM:: An Inferential Abstract Modeling Approach to Design of Conceptual Schema

Summary: IAM: inferential abstract modeling for conceptual schema design, merging local requirements with info-infer-relations. 7-phase, iterative: reqs, classification, FDs, abstract objects, integration, and derivability; ends with external-named-model transformation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2049
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1977
Pagerank: 5.7629057e-05
Overall Rank: 5,008 | 65.17%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Janis A. Bubenko Jr

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,323	Handling Summary Information In A Database: Derivability	1981	SIGMOD	6.2885419e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,601	A Method for Describing Information Required by the Database Design Process	1976	SIGMOD	0.00011200284
2,441	A Preliminary System For The Design Of Dbtg Data Structures	1975	SIGMOD	8.8101097e-05

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