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2000
Elsewhere Kennedy describes three elementary structures to be found in entity-relationship diagrams. Here, each of these structures is considered in the context of a transaction processing system and a specific set of components that can be associated with the structure is described. Next, an example is given illustrating the use of elementary structures as an analytical tool for data modelling and a diagnostic tool for the identification of errors in the resulting data model. It is conjectured that the amount of effort associated with each structure can be measured. A new approach for the estimation of the total effort required to develop a system, based on a count of the elementary structures present in the entity-relationship diagram, is then proposed. The approach is appealing because it can be automated and because it can be applied earlier in the development cycle than other estimation methods currently in use. The question of a suitable counting strategy remains open.
1995
The purpose of this article is to collect widely used entity-relationship diagram (ERD) notations and so their features can be easily compared, understood, and converted from one notation to another. We collected ten different ERD notations from text books and CASE tools. Each notation is depicted using a common problem and includes a discussion of each characteristic and notation. According to our investigation, we have found that ERD features and notations are different in seven features: whether they allow n-ary relationships, whether they allow attributes in a relationship, how they represent cardinality and participation constraints, the place where they specify constraints, whether they depict overlapping and disjoint subclass entity-types, whether they show total/partial specialization, and whether they model the foreign key at the ERD level. We conclude that many of the ER diagrams we studied are different in how they depict the criteria listed above. In order to convert one...
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