An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Exploiting Real-World Knowledge by Intelligent Database Design Tools
Recent years have seen the development of a number of expert system type tools whose primary objective is to...
Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models
This paper defines a comprehensive set of metrics for evaluating the quality of Entity Relationship models. This is an...
A Transformational Approach to Correct Schema Refinements
This paper extends a database schema transformation language, called Schema Refinement Language, with a composition operator and a rule...
The Guidelines of Modeling – An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models
Although the necessity of building models seems obvious, it is astonishing that only few works deal with the fundamental...
Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models—Experience in Research and Practice
This paper is an extension of previous research which developed a framework for evaluating and improving the quality of...
The Troll Approach to Conceptual Modelling: Syntax, Semantics, and Tools
In this paper, we present the use of Troll for the conceptual modelling of distributed information systems. Troll offers...
Process Failure in a Rapidly Changing High-Tech Organisation: A System Dynamics View
IS is still suffering from high rates of failure and dissatisfaction by users with the delivered product. Respondents to...
ROL2: A Real Deductive Object-Oriented Database Language
ROL is a strongly typed deductive object-oriented database language. It integrates many important features of deductive databases and object-oriented...
Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in an OODBMS
The multiobject mechanism is a pertinent way to implement specialization in an object database and differs from the classical...
Integrated Approach for Modelling of Semantic and Pragmatic Dependencies of Information Systems
Traditional semantic models are based on entity notations provided by several links. Links are established to capture semantic detail...
