Digital factory system for dynamic manufacturing network supporting networked collaborative product development
During the last years, important research investments have been made by Airbus Group Innovations for the establishment of sustainable...
Constraint modelling using a conceptual prototyping language
A conceptual language (CPL) is proposed, derived from natural language theory, for specifying both the static and dynamic component...
A transition logic for schemata conflicts
Conflict detection and analysis are of high importance, e.g., when integrating conceptual schemata, such as UML-Specifications, or analysing goal-fulfilment...
Design and implementation of derivation rules in information systems
In contrast to tables and integrity constraints, database triggers have no direct equivalent in conceptual models. To enable CASE...
WordNet++: A lexicon for the Color-X-method
In this article we discuss what kind of information can be obtained from WordNet and what kind of information should...
Using NNF to transform conceptual data models to object-oriented database designs
More work is needed on devising practical, but theoretically well-founded procedures for doing object-oriented database (OODB) design . Design...
Reconciling requirement-driven data warehouses with data sources via multidimensional normal forms
Successful data warehouse (DW) design needs to be based upon a requirement analysis phase in order to adequately represent...
MeDEA: A database evolution architecture with traceability
One of the most important challenges that software engineers (designers, developers) still have to face in their everyday work...
Performance evaluation of the object-relational transformation methodology
The emergence of the object-oriented (OO) methodology has shown its capabilities in modelling the real world better than the...
Deriving semantic information through property covering and inheritance
Covering is a well known relationship in semantic and object-oriented data models. Covering holds when a class is the...