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AIS Chapter 17
AIS Chapter 17
Read an REA diagram and explain what it reveals about the business
activities and policies of the organization being modeled.
System Conceptua
Analysis l Design
Physical
Design
Conceptual Design
Developing the different schemas for the new system at the conceptual, external, and internal
levels
Physical Design
Translating the internal-level schema into the actual database structures that will be
implemented in the new system
New applications are developed
Data models:
Data flow diagrams (Chapter 3)
Flow charts (Chapter 3)
Entity-relationship diagrams (Chapter 17)
Depicts entities
Anything an organization wants to collect information about
Resources
Things that have economic value
Events
Business activities
Management wants to manage and control
Agents
People and organizations that participate in events
2. Identify the resources affected by each event and the agents who
participate in those events.
What economic resource is reduced by the “Give” event?
What economic resource is acquired by the “Get” event?
What economic resource is affected by a commitment event?
One-to-Many:
Many-to-Many: