CSci 365 – Fall 2010 Dr. C.

Shin

Homework Assignment #3 Solution

1. Consider an information system that will represent information about

vehicles and their owners. Create an EER diagram that records
information about cars, trucks, motorcycles, and their owners. Add
attributes to the classes to represent information that is common to all
vehicles and that is specific to particular subclasses.
2. Consider an information system for course registration, as in Problem 13
in Chapter 2. Use the principles of specialization and generalization to
create an EER model in which students and faculty are all members of a
Person class, students can be either graduate students or undergraduate
students, and course instructors can be either faculty or graduate
students. (This situation is similar to, but not the same as, the EER
diagram of Fig. 3.3.)