Title: The creation of socio-economic data sets and the Entity-Relationship model

Authors: Ernst Goss, George Vozikis

Addresses: Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, University of Southern Mississippi, USA. ' Department of Management, College of Business Administration, Memphis State University, USA

Abstract: Economists and socialists have traditionally created and maintained their databases on secondary storage devices in the form of |flat| files with accompanying integrity and redundancy problems. This paper presents an alternative methodology, the Entity-Relationship model, which circumvents many of these problems and provides the researcher with a technique that more effectively creates and stores data.

Keywords: database management systems; DBMS; database processing; entity-relationship model; normalisation; socio-economic data sets; data storage.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.1991.062630

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 1991 Vol.4 No.1, pp.1 - 5

Published online: 10 Jun 2014 *

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