LAURA: A Formal Data Model and Her Logical Design Methodology

Summary: LAURA is a formal, function-based model combining functional/binary data models and semantic networks with generalization, abstraction, and categorization. Its normalization methodology preserves semantic and inherited-property information obscured by relational schemas and is automated for large-database design. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7790
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 7.4116889e-05
Overall Rank: 3,443 | 76.38%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Robert Brown (Database Design Group)
2. D. Stott Parker, Jr. (University of California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{brown_vldb83,
        title = {{LAURA: A Formal Data Model and Her Logical Design Methodology}},
        author = {Brown, Robert and D. Stott Parker, Jr.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        pages = {206},
        year = {1983}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
413	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018894294
3,633	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.2366114e-05
3,652	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	7.2249552e-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
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007727299
15	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00061144858
134	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00030343737
162	Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00027886326
421	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018742219
1,111	The U. R. Strikes Back	1982	PODS	0.00012131168
1,537	Assumptions in Relational Database Theory	1982	PODS	0.00010460647
1,577	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.00010310871
1,586	An Algebra Of Quotient Relations	1977	SIGMOD	0.00010282631
2,712	Improving Semantic Specification in a Relational Database	1979	SIGMOD	8.2127746e-05
3,437	Reflections on Boyce-Codd Normal Form	1982	VLDB	7.4157489e-05
3,461	Inference Rules for Functional and Inclusion Dependencies	1983	PODS	7.3938918e-05
3,648	A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model	1982	PODS	7.2267453e-05
3,884	Inclusion Dependencies and the Universal Instance	1983	PODS	7.0480285e-05
8,977	Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas	1983	SIGMOD	5.3406923e-05

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