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: 8181
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 5.6684264e-05
Overall Rank: 7,216 | 50.50%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Christoph F. Eick (University of Houston)

BibTeX Citation

@article{eick_vldb91,
        title = {{A Methodology for the Design and Transformation of Conceptual Schemas}},
        author = {Eick, Christoph F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '91},
        pages = {25},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,566	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010346227

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,215	Acquisition of terminological knowledge using database design techniques	1985	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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