This document discusses key concepts related to entity modeling including matching terms to their definitions such as supertype, subtype, specialization, discriminator, attribute inheritance, and overlap rule. It also briefly mentions entity clusters and locating target subtypes for entities using discriminators.
This document discusses key concepts related to entity modeling including matching terms to their definitions such as supertype, subtype, specialization, discriminator, attribute inheritance, and overlap rule. It also briefly mentions entity clusters and locating target subtypes for entities using discriminators.
This document discusses key concepts related to entity modeling including matching terms to their definitions such as supertype, subtype, specialization, discriminator, attribute inheritance, and overlap rule. It also briefly mentions entity clusters and locating target subtypes for entities using discriminators.
2. entity cluster - f b. entity belongs to two subtypes 3. subtype - a c. subtype gets supertype attributes 4. specialization - e d. generalized entity type 5. discriminator - g e. creating subtypes for an entity 6. attribute - inheritance - c type 7. overlap rule - b f. a group of associated entity types and relationships g. locates target subtype for an entity