Migrating to an object-oriented database using semantic clustering and transformation rules
This paper presents a methodology for handling an important step of database migration. The methodology is based on a...
Experiences with EDO: An Evolutionary Database Optimizer
In this paper we introduce the database design tool EDO: an Evolutionary Database Optimizer. The term 'evolutionary' refers to...
Toward principles for the representation of hierarchical knowledge in formal ontologies
Early ontological engineering methodologies have necessarily focussed on the management of the whole ontology development process. There is a...
Guideline based evaluation and verbalization of OWL class and property labels
The ontology language OWL has become increasingly important during the previous years. However due to the uncontrolled growth, OWL...
Improving business process intelligence by observing object state transitions
During the execution of business processes several events happen that are recorded in the company's information systems. These events...
Extracting ontological concepts for tendering conceptual structures
It has been argued that beyond software engineering and process engineering, ontological engineering is the third capability needed if...
Drafting ER and OO schemas in prototype environments
The system Queer is a prototype of an information system design tool which directly supports an extended Entity-Relationship model...
Information modeling: The process and the required competencies of its participants
In recent literature it is commonly agreed that the first phase of the software development process is still an...
Natural language analysis for semantic document modeling
To ease the retrieval of documents published on the Web, the documents should be classified in a way that...
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements...
