Collection Type Constructors in Entity-Relationship Modeling
Collections play an important part in everyday life. Therefore, conceptual data models should support collection types to make data...
Schema Exchange: A Template-Based Approach to Data and Metadata Translation
In this paper we study the problem of schema exchange, a natural extension of the data exchange problem to...
A Conceptual Modeling Methodology Based on Niches and Granularity
This paper presents a methodology for conceptual modeling which is based on a new modeling primitive, the niche, and...
Teaching a Schema Translator to Produce O/R Views
This paper describes a rule-based algorithm to derive a relational schema from an extended entity-relationship model. Our work is...
As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems
Many hypermedia models have been proposed, including those specifically developed to model navigational aspects of web sites. But few...
Building a Tool for Cost-Based Design of Object-Oriented Database Schemas
In the traditional waterfall approach for building a software application, the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, and...
A Goal Oriented Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Security Trade-Offs
In designing software systems, security is typically only one design objective among many. It may compete with other objectives...
Generic Schema Mappings
Schema mappings come in different flavors: simple correspondences are produced by schema matchers, intensional mappings are used for schema...
Rapid Business Process Discovery (R-BPD)
Modeling is an important and time consuming part of the Business Process Management life-cycle. An analyst reviews existing documentation...
Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition
This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined...
