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References

1

For more about the organization of data see Chapter 5 of this book.

2

This definition was taken from Ananda Amatya (March 1999). Available

at

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/∼ananda/umlNotes/node155.html.

3

This definition was take n from Alf A. Pederson’s article ‘‘Entity Rela-

tionship Modeling’’ (April 2005). Available at

http://www.devarticles.

com/c/a/Development-Cycles/Entity-Relationship-Modeling

.

4

This definition was taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

(© 1993–2008 Denis Howe). A vailable at

http://foldoc.org/index.

cgi?query=hierarchy&action=Search

.

5

Definition taken from Dictionary.com.

6

Please refer to Chapter 6 of The Data Model Resource Book, Revised Edition,

Volume 1, A Library of Universal Data Models for all Enterprises,byLen

Silverston (Wiley. 2001) for a discussion of this specific example.

7

Source for this definition is the Universal Data Models Repository. ©

Universal Data Models 2001–2008.

8

You can find a v ery interesting discussion on many-to-many recursive

relationships at the Steve Hoberman & Associates web site at

http://

www.stevehoberman.com/DesignChallenge/challenge11response.htm

.

9

You can find good guides for the creation and resolution of many-to-

many relationships in CASE*METHOD: Entity Relationship Modeling by

Richard Barker (Addison ...