Reverse engineering of relational databases: Extraction of an EER model from a relational database

The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data

Peter Pin-Shan Chen · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1976 · 4.6K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Data Management +14

Reverse engineering and design recovery: a taxonomy

Elliot J. Chikofsky, James H. Cross · IEEE Software · 1990 · 2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Systems Engineering +13

Database abstractions

John Miles Smith, Diane C. P. Smith · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1977 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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What IS-A Is and Isn't: An Analysis of Taxonomic Links in Semantic Networks

Brachman · Computer · 1983 · 574 citations

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Synthesizing third normal form relations from functional dependencies

Philip A. Bernstein · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1976 · 449 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Data Engineering +14