Modelling Data Warehouses and OLAP Applications by Means of Dialogue Objects
The idea of data warehouses is to provide condensed information in order to support managers in the analysis of...
Resolving the “Weak Status” of Weak Entity Types in Entity Relationship Schemas
Entity Relationship schemas include weak entity types, whose entities are identified by their inter-relationships to other entities. During the...
A Taxonomy of Recursive Relationships and Their Structural Validity in ER Modeling
In this paper, we present the complete classification of recursive relationships and the criteria that contribute to the structural...
Extending Functional Dependencies in Indefinite Sequence Relations
We introduce the concept of an indefinite sequence relation r over a relation schema R in order to capture...
View Integration of Object Life-Cycles in Object-Oriented Design
Object-oriented database schemas are often defined by several future users of the planned database, where each user defines a...
Towards an Automatic Integration of Statecharts
The integration of statecharts is part of an integration methodology for object oriented views. Statecharts are the most important...
Design Support for Database Federations
Federated database systems provide a homogeneous interface to possibly heterogeneous local database systems. This homogeneous interface consists of a...
Operational Characterization of Genre in Literary and Real-Life Domains
Literary or real-life narratives are classifiable according to genres. In this paper, genre is used as a modelling concept,...
Contextualization as an Abstraction Mechanism for Conceptual Modelling
The notion of context appears in several disciplines, including computer science, under various forms. In this paper, we are...
Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content
Dockets1 are traditional paper means for supporting specific classes of workflows which concentrate on content and its value for...
