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Consequences
e use of the pattern can lead to interesting and useful solution to entire classes
of problems. e use of the technique, however, may be dicult, as it requires con-
ceptualizing general concepts and principles behind a class of problems and then
integrating these concepts into a general solution technique. Dynamic program-
ming technique is particularly amenable to this integration of concepts through its
optimality principle.
Usage Example(s)
1. In Chen (1976), the author shows that the entity-relationship model gen-
eralizes the prevailing data models, the network model, the relational model,
and the entity-set model; also see Chapter 13, p. 328.
2. Denning (1968) develops the ...