A conceptual model for business re-engineering methods and tools
What do we need to know about the business in order to understand and, eventually, to improve business operations?...
Reverse engineering of relational database applications
This paper presents techniques for reverse engineering of relational database applications. The target of such an effort is the...
Data model evolution as a basis of business process management
In this article we propose an approach to business process management which meets the demands of business process evolution....
A rigorous approach to schema restructuring
A problem of schema integration is that one cannot directly merge concepts that are intuitively the same but have...
Managing schema changes in object-relationship databases
Changing a database schema may affect existing data and application programs. Immediate data restructuring is a first usual strategy...
Behavioural constraints: Why using events instead of states
This paper focusses on the behavioural constraints of the IFO2 model, an extension of the semantic model IFO defined...
Behavior consistent extension of object life cycles
Various notions of conformance between operations of a subtype and operations of a supertype have been proposed (e.g., contravariance...
Color-X Event Model: Integrated specification of the dynamics of individual objects
In this paper we show that specifying the dynamics of a system as a whole requires more information than...
Database design with behavior and views using parameterized Petri nets
We propose a method and a modeling tool for the design of relational databases. This conceptual design technique incorporates,...
SEER: Security enhanced entity-relationship model for secure relational databases
In this paper we propose extensions of the ER modeling concepts to address the conceptual modeling of security features...
