This volume comprises the proceedings of the Eleventh
International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach
held in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-9, 1992. It contains
the full versions of all the 22 accepted papers selected
from in total 64 submissions; in addition, the two invited
talks by Scheer and by Tsichritzis and others are
represented asfull papers and the two other invited
speakers contribute extended abstracts.
All the contributions describe original research related to
theoretical or practical aspects of the Entity-Relationship
Approach,reflecting the trend of recent years in a wide
range of database research activities. In particular, the
topics database design aspects, object-orientation,
integrity constraints, query languages, knowledge-based
techniques, and development of new applications are
addressed.