Transposed Storage of an Object Database to Reduce the Cost of Schema Changes
Modifying the schema of a populated database is an expensive operation. We propose to use the non-classical transposed storage...
Behavior Consistent Inheritance in UML
Object-oriented design methods express the behavior an object exhibits over time, i.e., the object life cycle, by notations based...
A Survey of Current Methods for Integrity Constraint Maintenance and View Updating
During the process of updating a database, two interrelated problems could arise. On one hand, when an update is...
The Viewpoint Abstraction in ObjectOriented Modeling and the UML
In object-oriented (OO) development the viewpoint abstraction has attracted by far less attention than classical abstraction mechanisms, such as...
XML Conceptual Modeling Using UML
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is increasingly finding acceptance as a standard for storing and exchanging structured and semi-structured...
Metadata Engineering for Corporate Portals Using XML
Careful analysis and preparation is required in order to prepare for XML-based delivery of data via Corporate Portals. This...
The Role of Information Resource Management in Managing a Corporate Portal
The Corporate Portal is a central gateway to the processes, databases, systems and workflows of an enterprise. When personalized...
The Five-Tier Five-Schema Concept
Many types of data models are being developed using a variety of different methods and notations. Some of these...
Documenting Meta Data Transformations
The adequate cross-referencing of a physical database and its logical model is crucial for software maintenance support. The paper...
Advanced Data Model Patterns
The book Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought describes a set of standard data models that can be applied...
