Reuse of Database Design Decisions
Reuse of available databases can support database design and reverse-engineering of databases by allowing design decisions to be derived...
Modeling Interactive Web Sources for Information Mediation
We propose a method for modeling complex Web sources that have active user interaction requirements. Here “active” refers to...
Web Application Models Are More than Conceptual Models
In this paper we argue that Web applications are a particular kind of hypermedia application and show how to...
Measuring the Quality of Entity Relationship Diagrams
Database quality depends greatly on the accuracy of the requirement specification and the greatest effort should focus on improving...
Transposed Storage of an Object Database to Reduce the Cost of Schema Changes
Modifying the schema of a populated database is an expensive operation. We propose to use the non-classical transposed storage...
Behavior Consistent Inheritance in UML
Object-oriented design methods express the behavior an object exhibits over time, i.e., the object life cycle, by notations based...
A Survey of Current Methods for Integrity Constraint Maintenance and View Updating
During the process of updating a database, two interrelated problems could arise. On one hand, when an update is...
The Viewpoint Abstraction in ObjectOriented Modeling and the UML
In object-oriented (OO) development the viewpoint abstraction has attracted by far less attention than classical abstraction mechanisms, such as...
XML Conceptual Modeling Using UML
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is increasingly finding acceptance as a standard for storing and exchanging structured and semi-structured...
Metadata Engineering for Corporate Portals Using XML
Careful analysis and preparation is required in order to prepare for XML-based delivery of data via Corporate Portals. This...
