A generic model for 3-dimensional conceptual modelling
This article discusses two highly intertwined issues. Firstly, we discuss the lack of top-down abstraction mechanisms in data modelling...
A UML profile for multidimensional modelingin data warehouses
The multidimensional (MD) modeling, which is the foundation of data warehouses (DWs), MD databases, and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)...
A conceptual model for temporal data warehouses and its transformation to the ER and...
The MultiDim model is a conceptual multidimensional model for data warehouse and OLAP applications. These applications require the presence...
Conceptual modeling for customized XML schemas
XML was initially developed for document management, but it is becoming increasingly used for storingand exchanging all kinds of...
A Guidelines framework for understandable BPMN models
Business process modeling allows abstracting and reasoning on how work is structured within complex organizations. Business process models represent...
Hierarchies in a multidimensional model:From conceptual modeling to logical representation
Hierarchies are used in data warehouses (DWs) and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems to see data at differ-ent levels...
An approach to test-driven development of conceptual schemas
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an extreme programming development method in which asoftware system is developed in short iterations. In...
COMIC: A system and methodology for conceptual modelling and information construction
The design of an IS requires that concepts and rules, i.e. a conceptual schema defining the...
Computing repairs for constraint violations in UML/OCLconceptual schemas
Updating the contentsof an information base may violate some of the constraints defined over theschema. The classical way to...
Towards object-oriented conceptual modeling
According to the object-oriented conceptual modeling approach that we present, a conceptual schema is a collection of...
