Is the future of conceptual modeling bleak or bright?
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Silver bullet shy on legacy mountain: When neat technology just doesn’t work -or Miracles...
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Successful practices in developing a complex information model
The Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) has recently announced the introduction of the Common Information Model (CIM). The primary...
A multi-level architecture for representing enterprise data models
One of the most serious limitations of the Entity Relationship Model in practice is its inability to cope with...
Resolving constraint conflicts in the integration of entity-relationship schemas
In this work, we address the problem of constraint conflicts while integrating the conceptual schemas of multiple autonomous databases...
Data model for customizing db schemas based on business policies
One of the goals of data modeling has been to uniquely identify the data semantics of target applications and...
A formal framework for er schema transformation
Several methodologies for semantic schema integration have been proposed in the literature, often using some variant of the ER...
Explaining conceptual models — An architecture and design principles
An important activity in requirements engineering is validation, which is the process of checking whether a model correctly represents...
Extending an object-oriented model: Multiple class objects
Experiences of both researchers and practitioners with the development of object-oriented database systems help us to evaluate the real...
Formal approach to metamodeling: A generic object-oriented perspective
Formal methods and metamodeling are promising ways to cope with the ever increasing size and complexity of modern software...