An autonomic ontology-based approach to manage information in home-based scenarios: From theory to practice
Data integration is a key challenge in scenarios where different sources of information form part of a common service,...
A knowledge-based approach to relational database design
An approach for creating automated tools for database design is outlined. PROEX, a knowledgebased system for the conceptual and...
An ontology-based model for competence management
In the last years, the need for developing strategies, models and tools to manage competences clearly emerges in numerous...
A scenario-based verification technique to assess the compatibility of collaborative business processes
Successful E-Business is based on seamless collaborative business processes. Each partner in the collaboration specifies its own rules and...
Refining non-taxonomic relation labels with external structured data to support ontology learning
This paper presents a method to integrate external knowledge sources such as DBpedia and OpenCyc into an ontology learning...
ER isomorphisms and uniqueness conditions
Given a collection of entity types (database tables) there is usually more than one way to model their associations....
The E/S knowledge representation system
This paper introduces the E/S knowledge representation model and describes a system based on that model. The model takes...
Modelling of set membership” The notion and the issues
Although high-level data abstractions have been recognized as very important for modelling complex applications, one abstraction that is not...
Subtyping and polymorphism in object-role modelling
Although Entity-Relationship (ER) modelling techniques are commonly used for information modelling, Object-Role Modelling (ORM) techniques are becoming increasingly popular,...
Automated analysis of integrity constraints in multi-level models
Multi-level modelling is a technology for model-based development that enables the incremental refinement of models in successive meta-levels, which...
