A Reference System for Topological Relations between Compound Spatial Objects
A current trend in the development of spatial-relation ontologies is to capture more and more details about the geometries...
Using a Foundational Ontology for Reengineering a Software Enterprise Ontology
The knowledge about software organizations is considerably relevant to software engineers. The use of a common vocabulary for representing...
A Model for Geographic Knowledge Extraction on Web Documents
There is an increasing interest on doing research in the field of information retrieval which aims to incorporate new...
Towards a Theory of Conceptual Modelling
Conceptual modelling is a widely applied practice and has led to a large body of knowledge on constructs that...
Assessing Modal Aspects of OntoUML Conceptual Models in Alloy
Assessing the quality of conceptual models is key to ensure that conceptual models can be used effectively as a...
First-Order Types and Redundant Relations in Relational Databases
Roughly, we define a redundant relation in a database instance (dbi) as a k-ary relation R such that there...
On Matrix Representations of Participation Constraints
We discuss the existence of matrix representations for generalised and minimum participation constraints which are frequently used in database...
Toward Formal Semantics for Data and Schema Evolution in Data Stream Management Systems
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) do not statically respond to issued queries — rather, they continuously produce result streams...
XML Machines
In order to capture the dynamics of XML databases a general model of tree-based database transformations is required. In...
Preface to FP-UML 2009
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-04947-7_13
