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Chapter 4 - Part I
Enhanced Entity-Relationship
and UML Modeling
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2004 B. Navathe
Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe.
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Enhanced-ER (EER) Model
Concepts
l Includes all modeling concepts of basic ER
l Additional concepts: subclasses/superclasses,
specialization/generalization, categories, attribute
inheritance
l The resulting model is called the enhanced-ER or
Extended ER (E2R or EER) model
l It is used to model applications more completely
and accurately if needed
l It includes some object-oriented concepts, such as
inheritance
Elmasri and Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2004 Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe
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