A lightweight methodology for rapid ontology engineering
UPON Lite focuses on users, typically domain experts without ontology expertise, minimizing the role of ontology engineers.
CONCEPTUAL MODELING AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTING
How to evaluate and select the methods and tools for building conceptual models that faithfully represent the abstract concepts...
Relational database design using an object-oriented methodology
Of the many approaches to relational database design, the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) is particularly effective. A comprehensive explanation...
How UML is used
Many UML projects are not Use Case driven.
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Database design: composing fully normalized tables from a rigorous dependency diagram
A new simplified methodology for relational-database design overcomes the difficulties associated with nonloss decomposition. It states dependencies between data...
Why significant UML change is unlikely
Reform may be too little too late to spare software engineers the cognitively overwhelming effort of applying UML to...
Updating derived relations: detecting irrelevant and autonomously computable updates
Consider a database containing not only base relations but also stored derived relations (also called materialized or concrete views)....
Domain-independent data cleaning via analysis of entity-relationship graph
In this article, we address the problem of reference disambiguation. Specifically, we consider a situation where entities in the...
Resolving the query inference problem using Steiner trees
The query inference problem is to translate a sentence of a query language into an unambiguous representation of a...
A new normal form for nested relations
We consider nested relations whose schemes are structured as trees, called scheme trees, and introduce a normal form for...
