Reuse of a repository of conceptual schemas in a large scale project
Large amounts of data are managed by organizations, available to be viewed and analysed from multiple perspectives, which becomes...
Enforcing Ontological Rules in UML-Based Conceptual Modeling: Principles and Implementation
UML is used for at least two purposes: OO software design, and conceptual modeling. However, UML's origins in software...
Experimental Comparison of Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams in Different Application Domains
This article reports the findings from a controlled experiment where both the comprehensibility and the quality of UML interaction...
“Part” relations for object-oriented databases
It has long been recognized that the “part” relation is an extremely useful modeling tool. This is especially true...
Unified class evolution by object-oriented views
Object-oriented databases are said to support evolution and incremental development. On the schema level, a firm restriction in this...
Classifying and reusing conceptual schemas
The paper presents a methodological approach to guide the application engineer to construct a Library of Entity-Relationship schemas, classified...
Embedding data modelling in a general architecture for integrated information systems
Current approaches for the development of information systems are too strongly biased towards implementation. The architecture developed here shows...
The use of a lexicon to interpret ER diagrams: a LIKE project
In designing Information systems words are being used: words with a fixed meaning, such as keywords and words chosen...
An entity-relationship-based methodology for distributed database design: An integrated approach towards combined logical and...
This paper presents an integrated, general methodology (SEER-DTS Methodology) for relational homogeneous distributed database (DDB) design. The SEER-DTS methodology...
A specification-based data model
This paper presents a conceptual data model for engineered products ranging from software systems to physical objects. The presented...
