The Composite Data Model: A Unified Approach for Combining and Querying Multiple Data Models
In this paper, we combine the characteristics of three fundamental data models in order to represent their semantics in...
SEAM: A state-entity-activity-model for a well-defined workflow development methodology
Current conceptual workflow models use either informally defined conceptual models or several formally defined conceptual models that capture different...
A methodology for learning across application domains for database design systems
Although database design tools have been developed that attempt to automate (or semiautomate) the design process, these tools do...
Constructing a New-Style Conceptual Model of Brain Data for Systematic Brain Informatics
The development of brain science has led to a vast increase of brain data. To meet requirements of a...
Capturing Telic/Atelic Temporal Data Semantics: Generalizing Conventional Conceptual Models
Time provides context for all our experiences, cognition, and coordinated collective action. Prior research in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and...
Comparing Relationships in Conceptual Modeling: Mapping to Semantic Classifications
Much of the research that deals with understanding the real world and representing it in a conceptual model uses...
Propositional Logic Constraint Patterns and Their Use in UML-Based Conceptual Modeling and Analysis
An important conceptual modeling activity in the development of database, object-oriented and agent-oriented systems is the capture and expression...
The Context and the SitBAC Models for Privacy Preservation—An Experimental Comparison of Model Comprehension...
Situation-Based Access Control (SitBAC) is a conceptual model for representing access control policies of healthcare organizations by characterizing situations...
Augmenting a Conceptual Model with Geospatiotemporal Annotations
While many real-world applications need to organize data based on space (e.g., geology, geomarketing, environmental modeling) and/or time (e.g.,...
Extending BCDM to Cope with Proposals and Evaluations of Updates
The cooperative construction of data/knowledge bases has recently had a significant impulse (see, e.g., Wikipedia ). In cases in...
