Well-behaving rule systems for entity-relationship and object oriented models
Integrity Maintenance is considered one of the major application fields of rule triggering systems (RTSs). In the case of...
An Entomological Collections Database Model for INPA
The National Institute for Amazon Research, INPA, has more than 40 years tradition in studying the Amazon, the biggest...
Behavior consistent refinement of object life cycles
This paper examines the inheritance of object life cycles that are specified by behavior diagrams. A behavior diagram of...
A Global Object Model for Accommodating Instance Heterogeneities
To completely address database integration problems in the context of multidatabase and data warehousing systems, one has to...
On Formalizing the UML Object Constraint Language OCL
We present a formal semantics for the Object Constraint Language (OCL) which is part of the Unified Modeling Language...
Derived Horizontal Class Partitioning in OODBs: Design Strategies, Analytical Model, and Evaluation
Object oriented database systems (OODBSs) have been used for advanced applications that require not only additional data modeling capabilities,...
From conceptual modeler to university president
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An Ontology for Database Design Automation
Although it is possible to encode a great deal of process knowledge about database design into a system, experience...
Exploiting domain knowledge during the automated design of object-oriented databases
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Intelligent support for retrieval and synthesis of patterns for object-oriented design
Several decades of software engineering research confirm that effective reuse is the only realistic approach to meeting the ever-increasing...