Entity — Relationship modeling and fuzzy databases

This work describes an integration of an entity/relationship model and fuzzy databases. It outlines a formal model for representing fuzziness in the ER model, and sketchs a version of the ER algebra, adapted to manipulating fuzzy databases.

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