A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model
A graph-oriented object database model (GOOD) is introduced as a theoretical basis for database systems in which manipulation as...
Deductive Entity Relationship Modeling
We present an entity relationship oriented model, which essentially includes the notion of class, together with different types of...
Semantic Abstractions in the Multimedia Domain
Information searching by exactly matching content is traditionally a strong point of machine searching; this is not, however, how...
Materialization and Its Metaclass Implementation
Materialization is a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern for conceptual modeling that relates a class of categories (e.g., models...
Artifact-Based Workflows for Supporting Simulation Studies
Valid models are central for credible simulation studies. If those models do not exist, they need to be developed....
Evaluating Wiki Collaborative Features in Ontology Authoring
It is nowadays well-established that the construction of quality domain ontologies benefits from the involvement in the modelling process...
Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development
This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating...
One-to-one Dependencies in Database Design
The types of dependencies between objects in some reality determine to a large extent the structure of its database...
Design of an Integrated Information Retrieval/Database Management System
To increase the semantics available in a database system it is useful to integrate it with the well-understood models,...
A Framework for Product Data
Improved support for engineering using information technology involves the integraticln of existing, evolving and future product data, and software...
