Interested in Database Design? Enjoy reading the book on the MADS Conceptual Modeling Approach:

A reviewer's opinion:

This is an important book which documents the implementation of standard concepts in the spatial and the temporal modelling of geographical information, but which introduces important new concepts for application domains, including multiple representations and multiple perceptions, as fundamental parts of the database. The book serves to provide a conceptual specification and details the implementation of the approach.

This book is reasonably priced and it has all the ingredients for an excellent textbook (including an extensive bibliography). So I would encourage lecturers who run courses in database design to consider using this as their text.

Peter Fisher,
Information Science, School of Informatics,
City University, London EC1V 0HB, England

Excerpt from: Reviews, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2007, volume 34, pages 188-189

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