A Surrogate Concept for Engineering Databases

Summary: Introduces a surrogate-based relational model for structured engineering data (CAD, VLSI, geographic), supporting user-defined semantic relationships. Binds system surrogates to user keys and enables efficient implicit joins via built-in functions. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7765
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 6.1831613e-05
Overall Rank: 5,533 | 62.04%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Andreas Meier (IBM)
2. Raymond A. Lorie (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{meier_vldb83,
        title = {{A Surrogate Concept for Engineering Databases}},
        author = {Meier, Andreas and Lorie, Raymond A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        year = {1983}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,882	Implementation Techniques of Complex Objects	1986	VLDB	9.5505879e-05
4,364	PRIMA - a DBMS Prototype Supporting Engineering Applications	1987	VLDB	6.7411088e-05
13,154	An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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