Constraint acquisition for Entity-Relationship models
We establish search algorithms from the area of propositional logic as invaluable tools for the semantic knowledge acquisition in...
Consistency enforcement in Entity-Relationship and object-oriented models
Integrity Maintenance is considered one of the major application fields of rule triggering systems (RTSs). Whenever a given integrity...
Decomposing relationship types by pivoting and schema equivalence
In the relational data model, the problem of data redundancy has been successfully tackled via decomposition. In advanced data...
View-based model-driven architecture for enhancing maintainability of data access services
In modern service-oriented architectures, database access is done by a special type of services, the so-called data access services...
Extracting generalization hierarchies from relational databases: A reverse engineering approach
Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMS) are currently the most popular database management systems. The relational model is a...
The XML Tree Model – toward an XML conceptual schema reversed from XML Schema...
XML Schema Definition (XSD) is the logical schemas of an XML model, but there is no standard format for...
Knowledge Engineering: Principles and methods
This paper gives an overview of the development of the field of Knowledge Engineering over the last 15 years....
Consistency of the static and dynamic components of object-oriented specifications
Object-oriented (OO) modeling and design methodologies have been receiving a significant attention since they allow a quick and easy-to-gasp...
Data schema design as a schema evolution process
In an information system a key role is played by the underlying data schema. This article starts out from...
Reasoning about ER models in a deductive environment
In this paper we present an approach to represent schema information, application data and integrity constraints as a logic...
