Documenting Meta Data Transformations
The adequate cross-referencing of a physical database and its logical model is crucial for software maintenance support. The paper...
Advanced Data Model Patterns
The book Data Model Patterns: Conventions of Thought describes a set of standard data models that can be applied...
Information Quality at Every Stage of the Information Chain
Larry English tells us that “quality is free.” The lack of quality is what is costly. Ensuring the quality...
A Fact-Oriented Approach to Business Rules
Effective database applications, business rules management, data warehousing, enterprise modeling and re-engineering all depend on the quality of the...
Personalized Digests of Sports Programs Using Intuitive Retrieval and Semantic Analysis
Recently, digital broadcasting has experienced rapid growth. Digital broadcasting can deliver additional data as program attachments, which viewers can...
Handling Evolving Data Through the Use of a Description Driven Systems Architecture
Traditionally product data and their evolving definitions, have been handled separately from process data and their evolving definitions. There...
Evolution of Schema and Individuals of Configurable Products
The increasing importance of better customisation of industrial products has led to development of configurable products. They allow companies...
Evaluating the Quality of Reference Models
The process of system design often begins with the selection of an appropriate reference model. Model selection necessitates a...
Updates and Application Migration Support in an ODMG Temporal Extension
A substantial number of temporal extensions to data models and query languages have been proposed. However, little attention has...
Measures for Assessing Dynamic Complexity Aspects of Object-Oriented Conceptual Schemes
System developers are increasingly realising that the quality of a system must be ensured in the early stages of...
