The Role of Information Resource Management in Managing a Corporate Portal
The Corporate Portal is a central gateway to the processes, databases, systems and workflows of an enterprise. When personalized...
The Five-Tier Five-Schema Concept
Many types of data models are being developed using a variety of different methods and notations. Some of these...
Documenting Meta Data Transformations
The adequate cross-referencing of a physical database and its logical model is crucial for software maintenance support. The paper...
Advanced Data Model Patterns
The book Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought describes a set of standard data models that can be applied...
Information Quality at Every Stage of the Information Chain
Larry English tells us that “quality is free.” The lack of quality is what is costly. Ensuring the quality...
Tool Support for Reuse of Analysis Patterns — A Case Study
The size and complexity of modern information systems together with requirements for short development time increase the demands for...
Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models
Reuse of domain models is often limited to the reuse of the structural aspects of the domain (e.g. by...
Ontological Analysis of Taxonomic Relationships
Taxonomies based on a partial-ordering relation commonly known as is-a, class inclusion or subsumption have become an important tool...
Algebraic Database Migration to Object Technology
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more...
A Conceptual Model for the Web
Most documents available over the web conform to the HTML specification. Such documents are hierarchically structured in nature. The...
