Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models
Reuse of domain models is often limited to the reuse of the structural aspects of the domain (e.g. by...
Ontological Analysis of Taxonomic Relationships
Taxonomies based on a partial-ordering relation commonly known as is-a, class inclusion or subsumption have become an important tool...
Algebraic Database Migration to Object Technology
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more...
Data Warehouse Scenarios for Model Management
Model management is a framework for supporting meta-data related applications where models and mappings are manipulated as first class...
Reflections on Computer Science and Information Systems Research
Computer and related information and communication technologies have profoundly affected the shape of modern society. Shepherding the creation and...
From Entities and Relationships to Social Actors and Dependencies
Modeling social settings is becoming an increasingly important activity in software development and other conceptual modeling applications. In this...
A Pragmatic Method for the Integration of Higher-Order Entity-Relationship Schemata
One of the challenges in practical information system development is to find suitable methods for schema integration. Schema integration...
Explicit Modeling of the Semantics of Large Multi-layered Object-Oriented Databases
Description-driven systems based on meta-objects are an increasingly popular way to handle complexity in large-scale object- oriented database applications....
Declarative Mediation in Distributed Systems
The mediation architecture is widely used for bridging heterogeneous data sources. We investigate how such architecture can be extended...
Temporal Constraints for Object Migration and Behavior Modeling Using Colored Petri Nets
In databases based on a multi-aspects object-oriented data model which enables multiple aspects of a real-world entity to be...
