Conceptual integration of multiple partial geometric models
Many scientific databases need to manage complex 3D geometric data such as models of the cerebral cortex. Often the...
Representing and Querying Semistructured Web Data Using Nested Tables with Structural Variants
This paper proposes an approach to representing and querying semistructured Web data. The proposed approach is based on nested...
Evaluating the Quality of Process Models: Empirical Testing of a Quality Framework
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of a conceptual model quality framework for evaluating the quality of process models....
On the Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models to Logical Theories
This paper describes a semi-automatic transformation from object-oriented conceptual models to logical theories. By associating a logical theory with...
Reasoning with Goal Models
Over the past decade, goal models have been used in Computer Science in order to represent software requirements, business...
Registering Scientific Information Sources for Semantic Mediation
In a conventional information mediation scenario it is assumed that all sources, including their schemas, are known before the...
Multidimensional Modeling with UML Package Diagrams
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for object-oriented analysis and design, providing different diagrams...
Comparative Evaluation of Large Data Model Representation Methods: The Analyst’s Perspective
One of the most serious limitations of the Entity Relationship (ER) Model in practice is its inability to cope...
Extracting Conceptual Relationships from Specialized Documents
Conceptual modeling has been fundamental to the management of structured data. However, its value is increasingly being recognized for...
A Transactional Model for Data Warehouse Maintenance
A Data Warehouse Management System (DWMS) incrementally maintains materialized views by issuing maintenance queries to the data sources. To...
