A Methodology for the Design and Transformation of Conceptual Schemas

Summary: Survey of the ANNAPURNA conceptual design methodology; back-end analysis via multi-typed functional and existence dependencies. Quality measures for conceptual schemas, a transformation framework, and evaluation/transformation algorithms; discusses feasibility. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7991
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 5.1010291e-05
Overall Rank: 6,334 | 55.98%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Christoph F. Eick

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,302	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00012696737

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13,027	Acquisition of terminological knowledge using database design techniques	1985	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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