ODMG Language Extensions for Generalized Schema Versioning Support
The management of different schema versions is required in long-lived database systems to accomplish data structural changes and represent...
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...
A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Multi-agent Information Systems
This paper presents a multi-agent conceptual model for resource allocation in a manufacturing environment. To attain this purpose a...
Object Role Modelling and XML-Schema
XML is increasingly becoming the preferred method of encoding structured data for exchange over the Internet. XML-Schema, which is...
Constraints-Preserving Transformation from XML Document Type Definition to Relational Schema
As Extensible Markup Language (XML) is emerging as the data format of the internet era, there are increasing...
X-Ray – Towards Integrating XML and Relational Database Systems
Relational databases get more and more employed in order to store the content of a web site. At the...
A Conceptual Model for Remote Data Acquisition Systems
Data acquisition systems (DAS) are the basis for building monitoring tools that enable supervision of local and remote systems....
A Modeling Language for Design Processes in Chemical Engineering
In the chemical industry a major task is to design manufacturing pro-cesses, which is a creative, ill-defined, complex, and...
VideoGraph: A Graphical Object-Based Model for Representing and Querying Video Data
Modeling video data poses a great challenge since they do not have as clear an underlying structure as traditional...
