Graphical Reasoning for Sets of Functional Dependencies
Reasoning on constraint sets is a difficult task. Classical database design is based on a step-wise extension of the...
On Behavioural Model Transformation in Web Services
Web Services are seen as one of the most promising solutions for the integration of autonomous, heterogonous e-business systems....
ER-Based Software Sizing for Data-Intensive Systems
Despite the existence of well-known software sizing methods such as Function Point method, many developers still continue to use...
Model-Driven Planning and Development of Infrastructures for E-Commerce
For many companies, especially small and medium sized firms (SME), planning and implementing infrastructures for Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) that...
Data Mapping Diagrams for Data Warehouse Design with UML
In Data Warehouse (DW) scenarios, ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) processes are responsible for the extraction of data from heterogeneous...
Entity Resolution: Overview and Challenges
Entity resolution is a problem that arises in many information integration scenarios: We have two or more sources containing...
Informational Scenarios for Data Warehouse Requirements Elicitation
We propose a requirements elicitation process for a data warehouse (DW) that identifies its information contents. These contents support...
Towards a Statistically Semantic Web
The envisioned Semantic Web aims to provide richly annotated and explicitly structured Web pages in XML, RDF, or description...
The Application and Prospect of Business Intelligence in Metallurgical Manufacturing Enterprises in China
This paper introduces the application of Business Intelligence (BI) technologies in metallurgical manufacturing enterprises in China. It sets forth...
Conceptual Modelling – What and Why in Current Practice
Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and tools used by analysts...
