Resolving fragmentation conflicts in schema integration
Research on schema integration leads to the identification of many different conflict types. Some of them received much attention...
An executable meta model for re-engineering of database schemas
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a specification, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming...
From E-R to “A-R” — Modelling strategic actor relationships for business process reengineering
As information systems are increasingly being called upon to play vital roles in organizations, conceptual modelling techniques need to...
Standard-driven re-engineering of entity-relationship schemas
System evolution and re-engineering are becoming increasingly important as the size and complexity of Information Systems continue to grow....
The Object Flow Model: A formal framework for describing the dynamic construction, destruction and...
This research complements active object-oriented database management systems by providing a formal, yet conceptually-natural model for complex object construction...
Business process modeling in the workflow management environment Leu
Most of todays approaches to business process engineering (also called business process management) start from an activity-centered perspective. They...
An assisting method for enterprise-wide conceptual data modeling in the bottom-up approach
This paper proposes a method with which an ER model, an important part of Enterprise-wide Conceptual Data Model, can...
Organisational and information system modelling for information systems requirements determination
Information system development lacks support for the organisational modelling and analysis which should be carried out prior to or...
What makes a good data model? Evaluating the quality of entity relationship models
This paper develops a framework for evaluating the quality of data models and choosing between alternative representations of requirements....
Database evolution: the DB-MAIN approach
The paper analyses some of the practical problems that arise when the requirements of an information system evolve, and...
