Declarative specification of constraint maintenance
Integrity repair is a pragmatic alternative to integrity checking, already proposed by relational and Codasyl standards and supported by...
On the representation of objects with polymorphic shape and behavior
In this paper we present the concept of roles as an extension to object-oriented database models in which identifiable...
A normal form object-oriented entity relationship diagram
A normal form object-oriented entity relationship (OOER) diagram is presented to address a set of OO data modelling issues,...
The use of agglomerative categorisation to build a conceptual view of statistical data
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COMan — coexistence of object-oriented and relational technology
Applying object-oriented technology to systems development is widely recognized as improving productivity and reducing system maintenance costs. At the...
Reflections on the relationship between BPR and software process modelling
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is much in vogue both as an approach to the rationalisation of Corporate Organisations and...
Cardinality consistency of derived objects in DOOD systems
Deductive object oriented database languages are faced with the problem of dealing with the new concepts of the object...
Specifying business processes over objects
The focus of this paper is on the modeling of application and business processes in Cooperative Information Systems. Such...
Conceptual modelling and manipulation of temporal databases
The overall aim of this paper is to briefly introduce our approach to temporal data modelling described as the...
Deriving complex structured object types for business process modelling
To build efficient information systems it is important to understand and to optimize the business processes which should be...
