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: h96f9b81b229d9ce4
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 7.2468609e-05
Overall Rank: 3,510 | 76.41%
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
425	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018486061
3,715	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.0750576e-05
3,732	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	7.0674932e-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	0.00075944947
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059996338
136	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00029740459
159	Inclusion dependencies and their interaction with functional dependencies (Extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00027958527
434	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018328281
1,138	The U. R. Strikes Back	1982	PODS	0.00011865234
1,562	Assumptions in Relational Database Theory	1982	PODS	0.00010227324
1,591	Compatible Attributes In A Universal Relation	1982	PODS	0.00010138039
1,620	An Algebra Of Quotient Relations	1977	SIGMOD	0.00010054489
2,769	Improving Semantic Specification in a Relational Database	1979	SIGMOD	8.0387502e-05
3,476	Reflections on Boyce-Codd Normal Form	1982	VLDB	7.2707399e-05
3,529	Inference Rules for Functional and Inclusion Dependencies	1983	PODS	7.2297471e-05
3,733	A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model	1982	PODS	7.0646557e-05
3,968	Inclusion Dependencies and the Universal Instance	1983	PODS	6.8901775e-05
9,141	Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas	1983	SIGMOD	5.2209105e-05

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