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: 2111
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1977
Pagerank: 5.8895166e-05
Overall Rank: 6,388 | 56.18%
DOI: 10.1145/509404.509415

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Janis A. Bubenko Jr (IBM; Royal Institute of Technology; Stockholm University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jr_sigmod77,
        title = {{IAM:: An Inferential Abstract Modeling Approach to Design of Conceptual Schema}},
        author = {Bubenko, Jr, Janis A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '77},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509404.509415},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509404.509415},
        year = {1977}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,090	Handling Summary Information In A Database: Derivability	1981	SIGMOD	6.367045e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,030	A Method for Describing Information Required by the Database Design Process	1976	SIGMOD	7.8335975e-05
3,388	A Preliminary System For The Design Of Dbtg Data Structures	1975	SIGMOD	7.4527074e-05

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