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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

What makes a good data model? Evaluating the quality of entity relationship models

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This paper develops a framework for evaluating the quality of data models and choosing between alternative representations of requirements....

Database evolution: the DB-MAIN approach

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The paper analyses some of the practical problems that arise when the requirements of an information system evolve, and...

Database schema evolution through the specification and maintenance of changes on entities and relationships

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A flexible database system needs to support changes to its schema in order to facilitate the requirements of new...

The seven habits of highly effective data modellers (and object modellers?)

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Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0020554

Object responsibility categories in support of top-down object discovery

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Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0020555

Reengineering processes in public administrations

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The paper presents a methodological approach to the reengineering of work processes. Reengineering in the Public Administration domain is...

Denormalisation as an OO extension

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Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0020556

Uniqueness conditions for ER representations

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Given a collection of entity types (database tables) there is usually more than one way to model their associations....

Development of a financial markets analytical product: A MOSES casestudy

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The approach described in this paper has resulted in iterative development and incremental releases. It enabled analytics to be...

Rapid prototyping: An integrated CASE based approach

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Seamless methodology integration covering the entire lifecycle has proven to be an elusive Grail for software engineers. Mix-and-match approaches...