Decomposition of relationships through pivoting
In the literature there are several proposals to map entity-relationship schemas onto object-oriented schemas, but they only treat relationship...
Understanding the implementation of IS-A relations
Generalization/specialization hierarchies (IS-A relations for short) are basic semantic constructs proposed in most information system conceptual models. At the...
Deductive object oriented schemas
Current Object Oriented (OO) Database schema structures allow isa relationships and multiple inheritance. We extend these structures with features...
Fragmentation techniques for distributing object-oriented databases
Design of distributed object-oriented databases inherits the design problems from the relational distributed databases and presents additional difficulties related...
An agent based mobile system
In this paper we propose a new mobile system architecture, called the Client-Representative-Agent-Server (CRAS) architecture. While developing this architecture,...
Activity flow: Towards incremental specification and flexible coordination of workflow activities
We introduce the ActivityFlow specification language for incremental specification and flexible coordination of workflow activities. The most interesting features...
Is the future of conceptual modeling bleak or bright?
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63699-4_30
Silver bullet shy on legacy mountain: When neat technology just doesn’t work -or Miracles...
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63699-4_15
Successful practices in developing a complex information model
The Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) has recently announced the introduction of the Common Information Model (CIM). The primary...
A multi-level architecture for representing enterprise data models
One of the most serious limitations of the Entity Relationship Model in practice is its inability to cope with...
