Department of Computer Science

1411263 Intro. to Database Management Systems

Fall 2021-2022

iTBL 5-B

Given the following data requirements of a CONFERENCE database, draw the initial ER design.

 For each conference we want to keep the start date, end date, period, location, name and code that
consists of the name initials plus the year.
 Researchers are attending conferences. We want to keep track of the researcher’s info (name and
specialization), affiliation and address. Assume that researchers’ names are unique.
 Each paper should have a title, abstract, conference and researcher(s), who authored the paper.
Assume that the titles of papers may not be unique. Also, some conference attendees (potential
researchers) may not have papers yet.

Initial Design:
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end-date

start_date
period
name

CONFERENCE
name_initials

location Code

year

address
conferences

RESEARCHERS
name

affiliation info

specialization
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conference abstract

title

PAPER

Reserchers
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Final Design:
For the cardinality and participation constraints, if not mentioned in the description above, make an
assumption, write it below, and design accordingly.

- We assume that confrences must be attended by researchers and that researchers must
attend confrences.
- Paper is a weak entity, we assume title as partial key and writes as the identifying
relationship.
- Not all researches must write papers but papers must be written by a researcher.
- We assume papers must be published in a conference and that a confrenece must have
papers published in it.
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1411263 Intro. to Database Management Systems
Fall 2021-2022