Pruning Ontologies in the Development of Conceptual Schemas of Information Systems
In the past, most conceptual schemas of information systems have been developed essentially from scratch. Currently, however, several research...
Definition of Events and Their Effects in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages
Most current conceptual modeling languages and methods do not model events as entities. We argue that, at least in...
Enterprise Modeling with Conceptual XML
An open challenge is to integrate XML and conceptual modeling in order to satisfy large-scale enterprise needs. Because enterprises...
Classification of Business Process Correspondences and Associated Integration Operators
Integration of business processes requires the integration of both the structure and behaviour of the data objects involved. Research...
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...
