Resolving structural conflicts in the integration of Entity-Relationship schemas
Schema integration is essential to define a global schema that describes all the data in existing databases participating in...
Use and control of data models: A repository approach
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The seven habits of highly effective data modellers (and object modellers?)
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Reverse engineering of relational database applications
This paper presents techniques for reverse engineering of relational database applications. The target of such an effort is the...
Data model evolution as a basis of business process management
In this article we propose an approach to business process management which meets the demands of business process evolution....
A rigorous approach to schema restructuring
A problem of schema integration is that one cannot directly merge concepts that are intuitively the same but have...
Managing schema changes in object-relationship databases
Changing a database schema may affect existing data and application programs. Immediate data restructuring is a first usual strategy...
Behavioural constraints: Why using events instead of states
This paper focusses on the behavioural constraints of the IFO2 model, an extension of the semantic model IFO defined...
Behavior consistent extension of object life cycles
Various notions of conformance between operations of a subtype and operations of a supertype have been proposed (e.g., contravariance...
Color-X Event Model: Integrated specification of the dynamics of individual objects
In this paper we show that specifying the dynamics of a system as a whole requires more information than...
