Multidimensional Modeling with UML Package Diagrams
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for object-oriented analysis and design, providing different diagrams...
Comparative Evaluation of Large Data Model Representation Methods: The Analyst’s Perspective
One of the most serious limitations of the Entity Relationship (ER) Model in practice is its inability to cope...
Extracting Conceptual Relationships from Specialized Documents
Conceptual modeling has been fundamental to the management of structured data. However, its value is increasingly being recognized for...
A Transactional Model for Data Warehouse Maintenance
A Data Warehouse Management System (DWMS) incrementally maintains materialized views by issuing maintenance queries to the data sources. To...
The Account Data Model
A new data model is proposed using a traditional accounting approach to model an organization’s transactional data and extending...
Extracting Data behind Web Forms
A significant and ever-increasing amount of data is accessible only by filling out HTML forms to query an underlying...
Multirelational Semantics for Extended Entity-Relationship Schemata With Applications
This paper describes a multirelation semantics for a fragment of the Extended Entity-Relationship schemata formalism based on the bicategorical...
Managing Unstructured E-Commerce Information
This paper describes an e-commerce application build on the Electronic Trading Opportunities System. This system enables ‘Trade Points’ and...
A Meta-model for e-Contract Template Variable Dependencies Facilitating e-Negotiation
Contracts are important for attaining business process interoperability and enforcing their proper enactment. An e-Contract is the computerized facilitation...
Modelling Web-Based Banking Systems: Story Boarding and User Profiling
Electronic Business applications are often implemented using web-based Information Systems, in which human-to-human interaction is replaced by human-computer interaction....
