Relationship Type Refinement in Conceptual Models with Multiple Classification
The definition of a relationship type includes its participant entity types and the cardinality constraints. Relationship type refinement is...
A Metamodel for Part ñ Whole Relationships for Reasoning on Missing Parts and Reconstruction
The ontological analysis of parts and wholes gathers recently increasing interest, and develops into a specific research area called...
Developing XML Documents with Guaranteed “Good” Properties
Many XML documents are being produced, but there are no agreed-upon standards formally defining what it means for complying...
Conceptual Modeling for Collaborative E-business Processes
As the Web evolves from providing information access into a platform for e-business, there is a need for modeling...
CASE Tool Support for Temporal Database Design
Current RDBMS technology provides little support for building temporal databases. The paper describes a methodology and a CASE tool...
“i-mode”, Now & Future
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_2
Domain-Specific Metadata a Key for Building Semantically-Rich Schema Models
Providing integrated access to data from many diverse and heterogeneous Information Servers (ISs) requires deep knowledge, not only about...
The Role of Research in the New Economy
It is increasingly becoming clear that there is no separate new Economy. The new Economy is an integral part...
Semantic B2B Integration: Is Modeling the Superior Approach over Programming?
Business-to-business (B2B) integration can be achieved by programming using a programming language or by modeling in a modeling and...
Modeling Topological Constraints in Spatial Part-Whole Relationships
To facilitate development of spatial applications, we investigate the problem of modeling topological constraints in part-whole relationships between spatial...
