Design Support for Database Federations
Federated database systems provide a homogeneous interface to possibly heterogeneous local database systems. This homogeneous interface consists of a...
Operational Characterization of Genre in Literary and Real-Life Domains
Literary or real-life narratives are classifiable according to genres. In this paper, genre is used as a modelling concept,...
Contextualization as an Abstraction Mechanism for Conceptual Modelling
The notion of context appears in several disciplines, including computer science, under various forms. In this paper, we are...
Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content
Dockets1 are traditional paper means for supporting specific classes of workflows which concentrate on content and its value for...
Architectures for Evaluating the Quality of Information Models — A Meta and an Object...
The evaluation of information models is an outstanding research field in information systems engineering. From a theoretical oriented research...
Workflow Specification in TRAMs
Adequate methods to workflow system design allow for all relevant aspects of workflows, such as organizational, structural, and behavioral...
XML-based Components for Federating Multiple Heterogeneous Data Sources
Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the object model as federating...
From CASE to CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering)
Software Engineering is still lacking methods which are capable of properly capturing the relevant System properties in the problem...
A Process-Integrated Conceptual Design Environment for Chemical Engineering
The process industries (chemicals, food, oil,...) are characterized by — continuous or batch — processes of material transformation. The...
Solving the Problem of Semantic Heterogeneity in Defining Mediator Update Translators
Mediator is a facility that supports an integrated view over multiple information sources, and allows for queries to be...
