Entity-Relationship Approach to the Conceptual Schema Design

Summary: ER-based method for conceptual schema design with an explicit ER schema that encodes functional, transitive, and hierarchical dependencies. Iterative refinement acts as the formal maintenance procedure, and an access-weight matrix is proposed to evaluate ER schemas. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2176
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
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Overall Rank: 14,545 | 0.21%
DOI: 10.1145/582250.582252

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1. Hirotaka Sakai (Hitachi)

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@inproceedings{sakai_sigmod80,
        title = {{Entity-Relationship Approach to the Conceptual Schema Design}},
        author = {Sakai, Hirotaka},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582250.582252},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582252},
        year = {1980}
}

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