© 1981 by British Computer Society
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Entities, functions and binary relations: steps to a conceptual schema
Computer Science Department, University of Bristol, School of Mathematics, University Walk, Bristol, UK and CACI Inc-International, 289 High Holborn, London, UK
A DBMS-independent method of data analysis, which has been used with considerable practical success, is described and assessed in relation to some more formal approaches to data modelling.
Received November 1978. revised August 1980.
* Computer Science Department, University of Bristol, School of Mathematics, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TW and CACI Inc-International, 289 High Holborn, London WC1V 7HX