The M*-COMPLEX Approach to Enterprise Modeling, Engineering, and Integration
A hot topic on the agenda of corporate management in order to improve the enterprise competitiveness factors concerns the...
Conceptual Design of Electronic Product Catalogs Using Object-Oriented Hypermedia Modeling Techniques
The application of conceptual models that assure both the consistency and usability of Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC's) is a...
Generic Linear Business Process Modeling
Visual-oriented process modeling concepts and languages used today often lead to modeling of “spaghetti-processes”. Thus, the process models are...
Resolving Conflicts and Handling Replication during Integration of Multiple Databases by Object Deputy Model
During integration of multiple databases, there are a lot of methods to resolve various syntactical and semantic conflicts. However,...
Pockets of Flexibility in Workflow Specification
Workflow technology is currently being deployed in quite diverse domains. However, the element of change is present in some...
Efficient Execution of Range-Aggregate Queries in Data Warehouse Environments
Range-aggregate queries on the data cube are powerful tools for analysis in data warehouse environments. Cubetree is a technique...
A Pragmatic Approach to Conceptual Modeling of OLAP Security
Traditionally data warehouses were queried by high level users (executive management, business analysts) only. As the range of potential...
A Randomized Approach for the Incremental Design of an Evolving Data Warehouse
A Data Warehouse (DW) can be used to integrate data from multiple distributed data sources. A DW can be...
Semantics of Stereotypes for Type Specification in UML: Theory and Practice
In the context of object-oriented formalism, stereotypes are presented as a new means for user-defined extensions of the Unified...
Towards Ontologically Based Semantics for UML Constructs
Conceptual models are formal descriptions of application domains that are used in early stages of system development to support...
