A Method for Describing Information Required by the Database Design Process

Summary: Proposes a formal method to describe the information required for database design, addressing input feasibility and adequacy beyond process-centric approaches. Defines two independent views—the information structure perspective (data characteristics and relations) and the usage perspective (data use)—and a vehicle to integrate them. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2096
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1976
Pagerank: 7.8335975e-05
Overall Rank: 3,030 | 79.22%
DOI: 10.1145/509383.509395

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Beverly K. Kahn (University of Michigan)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kahn_sigmod76,
        title = {{A Method for Describing Information Required by the Database Design Process}},
        author = {Kahn, Beverly K.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509383.509395},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509395},
        year = {1976}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,766	A Methodology for View Integration in Logical Database Design	1982	VLDB	9.8068514e-05
5,424	View Representation in Logical Database Design	1978	SIGMOD	6.2233246e-05
6,388	IAM:: An Inferential Abstract Modeling Approach to Design of Conceptual Schema	1977	SIGMOD	5.8895166e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
589	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00016066932

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