A Tool for Modular Database Design

Summary: Introduces modular database design combining integrity-constraint enforcement with organization of large schemas, constraints, and operations. Specifies a supporting development/maintenance tool and prototype expert system. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7914
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 5.4125783e-05
Overall Rank: 8,507 | 41.64%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Luiz Tucherman (IBM; Latin American Systems Research Institute)
2. Antonio L. Furtado (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro)
3. Marco A. Casanova (Brasilia Scientific Center; IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{tucherman_vldb85,
        title = {{A Tool for Modular Database Design}},
        author = {Tucherman, Luiz and Furtado, Antonio L. and Casanova, Marco A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        pages = {436},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,911	Semantic Modeling of Object Oriented Databases	1991	VLDB	5.7409624e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,258	On the Algebraic Specification of Databases	1982	VLDB	8.8540903e-05

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