Multidimensional Modeling with UML Package Diagrams
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for object-oriented analysis and design, providing different diagrams...
Comparative Evaluation of Large Data Model Representation Methods: The Analyst’s Perspective
One of the most serious limitations of the Entity Relationship (ER) Model in practice is its inability to cope...
Extracting Conceptual Relationships from Specialized Documents
Conceptual modeling has been fundamental to the management of structured data. However, its value is increasingly being recognized for...
A Transactional Model for Data Warehouse Maintenance
A Data Warehouse Management System (DWMS) incrementally maintains materialized views by issuing maintenance queries to the data sources. To...
The Account Data Model
A new data model is proposed using a traditional accounting approach to model an organization’s transactional data and extending...
A Semantic Model for Hypertext Data Caching
In this paper, we propose a semantic model to capture the semantic locality in hypertext access for client-side caching....
Understanding and Simulating Narratives in the Context of Information Systems
A modelling tool is described, which integrates simulation, plan recognition and knowledge discovery modules to help the specification and...
Global Schema Generation Using Formal Ontologies
This paper deals with the problem of handling semantic heterogeneity during schema integration. Semantics refer to the meaning of...
Automatically Extracting Ontologically Specified Data from HTML Tables of Unknown Structure
Data on the Web in HTML tables is mostly structured, but we usually do not know the structure in...
Superimposed Schematics: Introducing E-R Structure for In-Situ Information Selections
Considerable research exists on providing structured access to unstructured information sources, primarily for search and query. Little attention has...
