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Title: An annotated summary of the Information Model Design Procedure (IMDP)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10158014· OSTI ID:10158014

This presentation documents the essential elements of the IMDP as applied at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico. The IMDP is an adaptation of the Natural-Language Information Analysis Methodology (NIAM) of G. M. Nijssen. The underlying purpose of both of these methodologies is to provide a formal, reproducible, and verifiable approach to specifying the information requirements of an information system. The IMDP spans the specification process from initial scoping; through verbalization of problem-domain facts, specification of constraints, and subtype analysis; and finally to application of a formal algorithm for developing a fifth-normal-form relational database design.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
10158014
Report Number(s):
SAND-94-0460; ON: DE94013458; TRN: 94:006249
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English