Querying Databases with Taxonomies
Traditional information search in which queries are posed against a known and rigid schema over a structured database is...
What Is Wrong with Digital Documents? A Conceptual Model for Structural Cross-Media Content Composition...
Many of today’s digital document formats are strongly based on a digital emulation of printed media. While such a...
Classification of Index Partitions to Boost XML Query Performance
XML query optimization continues to occupy considerable research effort due to the increasing usage of XML data. Despite many...
Using Preaggregation to Speed Up Scaling Operations on Massive Spatio-temporal Data
A frequent operation in e-Science is downscaling of some data item or part thereof, such as obtaining a 1...
Situation Prediction Nets
Situation awareness in large-scale control systems such as road traffic management aims to predict critical situations on the basis...
Model-Driven Data Migration
The automatic generation of components from abstract models greatly facilitates information systems evolution, as changes to the model are...
Granularity in Conceptual Modelling: Application to Metamodels
The granularity of conceptual models depends at least in part on the granularity of their underpinning metamodel. Here we...
Meronymy-Based Aggregation of Activities in Business Process Models
As business process management is increasingly applied in practice, more companies document their operations in the form of process...
Feature Assembly: A New Feature Modeling Technique
In this paper we present a new feature modeling technique. This work was motivated by the fact that although...
Leveraging Business Process Models for ETL Design
As Business Intelligence evolves from off-line strategic decision making to on-line operational decision making, the design of the back-end...
