relaatiomallia
Relaatiomallia is a term used in Finnish-language scholarly writings to denote a family of models that formalize and analyze relations among entities in data-driven and socio-technical systems. In broad terms, a relaatiomallia represents entities as objects and relations between them as predicates or edges, allowing heterogeneous data types and multiple relation categories. The concept is used across disciplines such as database theory, information science, social network analysis, and knowledge representation. The term is of Finnish origin and is commonly used to describe relational modeling approaches, often in contrast to attribute-centric or monolithic data models.
Components typically include defined entity types, relation types, and constraints on how relations can be composed,
Applications span information systems, knowledge graphs, and recommender systems, as well as social network analysis, epidemiology,
See also: relational model, graph theory, knowledge graph, relational databases, network analysis.