On the Expressive Power of Data Integration Systems
There are basically two approaches for designing a data integration system. In the global-as-view (GAV) approach, one maps the...
Web extensions to UML: Using the MVC Triad
Current Web Modelling Languages (WMLs) fall short of the requirements for the modelling of web system development. In particular,...
Property-Based Semantic Reconciliation of Heterogeneous Information Sources
Integrating information from diverse sources is of great importance in the database area. The main difficulty in information integration...
Wiccap Data Model: Mapping Physical Websites to Logical Views
Information sources over the WWW contain a large amount of data organized according to different interests and values. Thus,...
Conceptual integration of multiple partial geometric models
Many scientific databases need to manage complex 3D geometric data such as models of the cerebral cortex. Often the...
Representing and Querying Semistructured Web Data Using Nested Tables with Structural Variants
This paper proposes an approach to representing and querying semistructured Web data. The proposed approach is based on nested...
Evaluating the Quality of Process Models: Empirical Testing of a Quality Framework
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of a conceptual model quality framework for evaluating the quality of process models....
On the Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models to Logical Theories
This paper describes a semi-automatic transformation from object-oriented conceptual models to logical theories. By associating a logical theory with...
Reasoning with Goal Models
Over the past decade, goal models have been used in Computer Science in order to represent software requirements, business...
Registering Scientific Information Sources for Semantic Mediation
In a conventional information mediation scenario it is assumed that all sources, including their schemas, are known before the...
