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Entity-Relationship Modeling

Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling is a conceptual approach to database design that represents real-world entities, their attributes, and the relationships between them. Introduced by Peter P.-S. Chen in 1976, ER modeling provides a high-level graphical notation (ER diagrams) that bridges the gap between informal requirements and formal database schemas.

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Entity-Relationship Data Modeling
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / information-systems
  • Chen, P. P.-S. (1976). The entity-relationship model: Toward a unified view of data. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 1(1), 9-36. · DOI 10.1145/320434.320440
  • Chen, P. P.-S. (1977). English sentence structure and entity-relationship diagrams. New York, NY: Elsevier North-Holland. · URL
  • Teorey, T. J., Yang, D., & Fry, J. P. (1989). A logical design methodology for relational databases using the extended entity-relationship model. ACM Computing Surveys, 18(2), 197-222. · URL
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