A Tool For Modular Database Design

Summary: Proposes a module-based design method with encapsulation: modules update only via their own operations, preserving constraints. Includes a tool for developing/maintaining modular schemas and a prototype expert system; queries remain unrestricted. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7723
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 4.5455963e-05
Overall Rank: 8,270 | 42.47%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,791	Semantic Modeling of Object Oriented Databases	1991	VLDB	4.9250521e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,130	On The Algebraic Specification Of Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00013779273

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