Information modeling in the time of the revolution

Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems

David Harel · Science of Computer Programming · 1987 · 6.7K citations

Engineering, Systems Engineering, Complex Systems +10

A relational model of data for large shared data banks

E. F. Codd · Communications of the ACM · 1970 · 5.2K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Information Systems +16

A relational model of data for large shared data banks

E. F. Codd · Communications of the ACM · 1983 · 4.8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Information Systems +16

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

The psychology of computer vision

Patrick Henry Winston · Pattern Recognition · 1976 · 2.6K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Psychology +12