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Information System Exercises

The document outlines practical exercises related to two systems: an airline flight management system and a hospital management system. The airline system involves flights with unique identifiers and airports, while the hospital system tracks patient symptoms and diseases with varying severity. The exercises prompt the user to describe the systems using ER models, recall translation rules, and convert the ER models into relational models.

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Information System Exercises

The document outlines practical exercises related to two systems: an airline flight management system and a hospital management system. The airline system involves flights with unique identifiers and airports, while the hospital system tracks patient symptoms and diseases with varying severity. The exercises prompt the user to describe the systems using ER models, recall translation rules, and convert the ER models into relational models.

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Practical exercises

Exercise 1:
An airline operates flights, each airline has an id, a departure airport and an
arrival airport. An airport has a unique identifier. Each flight has a unique i

Exercise 2:
A hospital management system contains a database to manage patients.
For each patient, data about the symptoms that the patients show is registered:
fever, headache, chest pain etc. symptoms can have different severity: low,
meddle or high. A patient may show several symptoms for example high fever,
medium headache and cough. The database also contains data about diseases.
Each disease is characterized by different symptoms: A patient with a cold have
fever and cough, a malaria patient should have fever and shivering

Question:
1. Describe the system in an ER model
2. Recall the rules to translate an ER model into relational model
3. Translate the ER model into relational model

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