\begin{frame}
\frametitle{IS-A, `Inheritance'}
\begin{minipage}{.4\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\scalebox{.8}{\hspace*{-3ex}
\begin{tikzpicture}[every edge/.style={link},d/.style={node distance=1cm}]
\node[entity] (A) {person};
\node[attribute,above of=A,d,xshift=-1.2cm] (name) {name} edge (person);
\node[attribute,above of=A,d,xshift=1.2cm] (address) {address} edge (person);
\node[entity,at=(A),shift={(-1.5cm,-2.4cm)}] (B) {employee};
\node[attribute,above of=B,node distance=1.2cm,xshift=-.2cm] (salary) {salary} edge (employee);
\node[entity,at=(A),shift={(1.5cm,-2.4cm)}] (C) {customer};
\node[isa,at=(person),shift={(0cm,-0.8cm)}] {ISA} edge (A) edge (B) edge (C);
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{.59\textwidth}
\begin{goal}{}
Lower-level entity sets are subgroups of the of higher-level entity sets:
\begin{itemize}
\item e.g. an employee `is a' person
\end{itemize}
\end{goal}
\pause
\begin{block}{}
Lower-level entity sets \emph{inherit all attributes and relationship sets}
of the higher-level entity sets.
\begin{itemize}
\item e.g. an employee has attributes \textit{name}, \textit{address} and \textit{salary}
\end{itemize}
\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\pause
\alt<-3>{
\begin{goal}{Design Principle: Specialisation}
\begin{itemize}
\item top-down design process
\item identify subgroups within an entity set
\item these subgroups become lower-level entity sets which
may have attributes or participate in relationship sets
that do not apply to the higher-level entity sets
\end{itemize}
\end{goal}
}{
\begin{goal}{Design Principle: Generalisation}
\begin{itemize}
\item bottom-up design process
\item combine a number of entity sets that share common features
into a higher-level entity set
\end{itemize}
\end{goal}
\begin{itemize}
\item specialisation and generalisation are both `is a'-relations
\end{itemize}
}
\pause
\vspace{10cm}
\end{frame}