Management of inconsistent information in federated systems
Lack of global consistency control mechanisms, replication of data and uncontrolled transfer of information among the database servers of...
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
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0020553
Versatile querying facilities for a dynamic object clustering model
The conceptual clustering model (CCM) that we have defined in is an extension to current object-oriented models; it...
A conceptual model for business re-engineering methods and tools
What do we need to know about the business in order to understand and, eventually, to improve business operations?...
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...
