LAURA: A Formal Data Model and her Logical Design Methodology

Summary: LAURA is a formal data model combining generalization, abstraction, and categorization with functional and semantic-network ideas for design. It preserves normalization semantics lost in relational translations and automates normalization transforms for design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7600
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 8.6783176e-05
Overall Rank: 2,482 | 82.76%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Robert Brown
2. D. Stott Parker, Jr.

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
303	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00028289399
1,288	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	0.00012779667
3,385	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.1531435e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0015464728
12	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.0011268747
105	Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00049082041
142	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00041780711
311	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00028106558
544	An Algebra Of Quotient Relations	1977	SIGMOD	0.00020423199
924	The U. R. Strikes Back	1982	PODS	0.00015249498
1,038	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.0001450967
1,062	Assumptions in Relational Database Theory	1982	PODS	0.00014353951
1,224	Improving Semantic Specification in a Relational Database	1979	SIGMOD	0.00013185926
1,960	Inference Rules for Functional and Inclusion Dependencies	1983	PODS	9.9543811e-05
3,086	Reflections on Boyce-Codd Normal Form	1982	VLDB	7.5948483e-05
3,339	A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model	1982	PODS	7.1989217e-05
3,877	Inclusion Dependencies and the Universal Instance	1983	PODS	6.6673599e-05
8,421	Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas	1983	SIGMOD	4.5115498e-05

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