A repository meta model for interactive systems
Developers of interactive systems need a design process that looks ahead to expose conflicting implications of decisions made by...
ER-based Information Retrieval in a mixed database environment
This paper presents an integrated Four Tools approach to providing an ER-based Information Retrieval Interface for mixed database environments,...
A framework for automatic clustering of semantic models
This article is concerned with the development, application and implication of automatic clustering of Entity-Relationship (E-R) diagrams and object...
A semantic comparison of the modelling capabilities of the ER and NIAM models
Conceptual design (conceptual modelling) is the most important phase in database design as it results in a conceptual schema,...
From entity-relationship models to role-attribute models
This paper is a short presentation of the SOM (Semantic Object Model) approach. SOM was created to fulfill two...
Design and implementation of derived entities
To allow an utilization of database system trigger mechanisms and application generators for information systems implementation, entity derivation is...
Analysis of binary relationships within ternary relationships in ER modeling
In this paper, we discuss which binary relationship cardinalities are permitted within ternary relationships, during ER modeling. We develop...
Searching for compositions in ER schemes
Absence of redundancy is an important quality of ER schemata. Adequate treatment of derivable data, in addition to observing...
Using conceptual graph theory to support schema integration
Two major problems in schema integration are to identify correspondences between different conceptual schemas and to verify that the...
Enhancing the quality of conceptual database specifications through validation
In this article, we present a validation approach and method to support the development of database applications. We explain...
