Using UML Profiles for Sector-Specific Tailoring of Safety Evidence Information
Safety-critical systems are often subject to certification as a way to ensure that the safety risks associated with their...
Merging Relational Views: A Minimization Approach
Schema integration is the procedure to integrate several inter-related schemas to produce a unified schema, called the mediated schema....
Ontology Evolution in Data Integration: Query Rewriting to the Rescue
The evolution of ontologies is an undisputed necessity in ontology-based data integration. In such systems ontologies are used as...
A Precious Class of Cardinality Constraints for Flexible XML Data Processing
Modern Web developers must often process collections of XML data that are aggregated from potentially thousands of heterogeneous sources....
High Quality Technical Documentation for Large Industrial Plants Using an Enterprise Engineering and Conceptual...
Engineering contractors are building very large installations such as nuclear power plants, airports, oil refineries etc. Two closely related...
Formal Semantics and Ontological Analysis for Understanding Subsetting, Specialization and Redefinition of Associations in...
The definition of the exact meaning of conceptual modeling constructs is considered a relevant issue since it contributes to...
Publishing Open Data and Services for the Flemish Research Information Space
The Flemish public administration aims to integrate and publish all research information on a portal. Information is currently stored...
Developing RFID Database Models for Analysing Moving Tags in Supply Chain Management
The applications of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) have become more important and diversified in recent years due to the...
The Role of Conceptual Modeling in Managing and Changing the Business
Conceptual modeling has been used mainly for supporting information systems (IS) development. In order to better capture requirements for...
Semi-automatic Conceptual Data Modeling Using Entity and Relationship Instance Repositories
Data modelers frequently lack experience and have incomplete knowledge about the application being designed. To address this issue, we...
