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Criteria and methodologies for the conceptual design of databases, particularly in large and sophisticated applications, are addressed. For a design to be understandable to user and designer alike, intuitive methods for abstracting concepts from a mass of detail must be employed. Two abstraction methods are particularly important — aggregation and generalization. Aggregation forms a concept by abstracting...