Designing Quality Databases with IDEF1X Information Models

This comprehensive text shows how to use IDEF1X information models to specify business information requirements, policies, and rules, and describes how to use these specifications to design and build high-quality database applications.Managers, systems professionals, and students will benefit from this thorough description of information modeling and database design with IDEF1X.Part One presents the general concepts behind databases, information management, and information modeling in the context of Zachman's Framework for Information Systems Architecture.Part Two fully describes the symbols and semantics of IDEF1X, and speculates about the future of information modeling as well as the evolution of the IDEF1X language to support object-oriented and rule-based systems development.Part Three provides an extensive case study of a California produce market, employing the concepts introduced in the book.Chapter-end exercises and references, eight appendices, a glossary, an index, and more than 300 figures and tables complete the text.