View Integration of Object Life-Cycles in Object-Oriented Design
Object-oriented database schemas are often defined by several future users of the planned database, where each user defines a...
Towards an Automatic Integration of Statecharts
The integration of statecharts is part of an integration methodology for object oriented views. Statecharts are the most important...
Design Support for Database Federations
Federated database systems provide a homogeneous interface to possibly heterogeneous local database systems. This homogeneous interface consists of a...
Operational Characterization of Genre in Literary and Real-Life Domains
Literary or real-life narratives are classifiable according to genres. In this paper, genre is used as a modelling concept,...
Contextualization as an Abstraction Mechanism for Conceptual Modelling
The notion of context appears in several disciplines, including computer science, under various forms. In this paper, we are...
Three Levels of Reuse for Supporting the Evolution of Database Schemas
This paper presents a reuse technique which permits to simplify redesign that may occur when the conceptual schema is...
A Unified Framework for Supporting Dynamic Schema Evolution in Object Databases
This paper addresses the design of an integrated framework for managing schema evolution. This framework is based on the...
An Incremental and Semi-automatic Method Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction
In we proposed a semi automatic method for generating inheritance graph hierarchy to assist the designer during the...
Developing an Object-Oriented Video Database System with Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Capabilities
Video data management (VDM) is fast becoming one of seminar topics in multimedia information systems. In VDM systems, there...
Entity Evolution in IsA Hierarchies
In a conceptual schema that includes specializations and generalizations, and that allows multiple classification, an entity may be, at...
