A Java-based framework for processing distributed objects
The Alexandria Digital Library Project at UC Santa Barbara has been building an information retrieval system for geographically referenced...
Fragmentation techniques for distributing object-oriented databases
Design of distributed object-oriented databases inherits the design problems from the relational distributed databases and presents additional difficulties related...
An agent based mobile system
In this paper we propose a new mobile system architecture, called the Client-Representative-Agent-Server (CRAS) architecture. While developing this architecture,...
Activity flow: Towards incremental specification and flexible coordination of workflow activities
We introduce the ActivityFlow specification language for incremental specification and flexible coordination of workflow activities. The most interesting features...
Is the future of conceptual modeling bleak or bright?
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63699-4_30
Silver bullet shy on legacy mountain: When neat technology just doesn’t work -or Miracles...
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63699-4_15
Successful practices in developing a complex information model
The Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) has recently announced the introduction of the Common Information Model (CIM). The primary...
A multi-level architecture for representing enterprise data models
One of the most serious limitations of the Entity Relationship Model in practice is its inability to cope with...
Resolving constraint conflicts in the integration of entity-relationship schemas
In this work, we address the problem of constraint conflicts while integrating the conceptual schemas of multiple autonomous databases...
Data model for customizing db schemas based on business policies
One of the goals of data modeling has been to uniquely identify the data semantics of target applications and...
