Process Failure in a Rapidly Changing High-Tech Organisation: A System Dynamics View
IS is still suffering from high rates of failure and dissatisfaction by users with the delivered product. Respondents to...
ROL2: A Real Deductive Object-Oriented Database Language
ROL is a strongly typed deductive object-oriented database language. It integrates many important features of deductive databases and object-oriented...
Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in an OODBMS
The multiobject mechanism is a pertinent way to implement specialization in an object database and differs from the classical...
Integrated Approach for Modelling of Semantic and Pragmatic Dependencies of Information Systems
Traditional semantic models are based on entity notations provided by several links. Links are established to capture semantic detail...
Implementation of Automatic Lock Determination in C++-Based OODBMSs
In most C++-based OODBMSs, the concurrency control has been implemented by using the locking mechanism. However, application programmers for...
Inference of Aggregate Relationships through Database Reverse Engineering
This paper presents a process to improve the reverse engineering of relational databases. Our process extracts the current aggregate...
Do We Need Information Modeling for the Information Highway?
Web sites, intranet and the internet are getting larger and more complex. Users have a frustating time finding the...
On the Consistency of Int-cardinality Constraints
In the entity-relationship model, cardinality constraints are frequently used to specify dependencies between entities and relationships. They impose lower...
Design and Analysis of Quality Information for Data Warehouses
Data warehouses are complex systems that have to deliver highly-aggregated, high quality data from heterogeneous sources to decision makers....
Realizing Next Generation Internet Applications: Are There Genuine Research Problems, or Is It Advanced...
The aim of this panel is to be both educational in providing pointers to characteristics of the Next Generation...
