Conceptual queries using ConQuer-II
Formulating non-trivial queries in relational languages such as SQL and QBE can prove daunting to end users. ConQuer is...
Reengineering Conventional Data and Process Models with Business Object Models: A Case Study Based...
Today, the business logic of complex business applications is typically documented by separate data and process models. This documentation...
Transaction-based specification of database evolution
We present a two-layer language for the specification of database evolution in terms of transaction-based, dynamic integrity constraints. The...
From Object Oriented Conceptual Modeling to Automated Programming in Java
The development of Internet commercial applications and corporate Intranets around the world, that often use Java as programming language,...
An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Exploiting Real-World Knowledge by Intelligent Database Design Tools
Recent years have seen the development of a number of expert system type tools whose primary objective is to...
Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models
This paper defines a comprehensive set of metrics for evaluating the quality of Entity Relationship models. This is an...
A Transformational Approach to Correct Schema Refinements
This paper extends a database schema transformation language, called Schema Refinement Language, with a composition operator and a rule...
The Guidelines of Modeling – An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models
Although the necessity of building models seems obvious, it is astonishing that only few works deal with the fundamental...
Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models—Experience in Research and Practice
This paper is an extension of previous research which developed a framework for evaluating and improving the quality of...
The Troll Approach to Conceptual Modelling: Syntax, Semantics, and Tools
In this paper, we present the use of Troll for the conceptual modelling of distributed information systems. Troll offers...
