An integrated methodology for functional analysis, process design and database design
A methodology that combines and integrates the major stages of information systems development is presented. The methodology is based...
From information system requirements to designs: A mapping framework
Comprehensive methodologies for information system development need to provide a framework for the adequate representation of system requirements and...
A requirements modeling language and its logic
This paper describes some aspects of a Requirements Modeling Language (RML) which can be used in the initial phases...
DATAID-1: A database design methodology
DATAID-1 is a database design methodology developed as part of the DATAID project financed by the Italian National Research...
Roles and their role in posing recursive queries
We show how to use the entity-relationship diagram as a vehicle for specifying the semantics of attributes. A main...
Applying object-oriented analysis on a case study
This paper aims at showing that some object-oriented fundamental principles provide new suitable mechanisms for the analysis and the...
A taxonomy for real-world modelling concepts
A major component in problem analysis is to model the real world itself. However, the modelling languages suggested so...
Design of engineering databases: A case for more varied semantic modelling concepts
Interest in database support for engineering applications is rapidly growing. In this paper we concentrate on conceptual database design...
An architecture for processing graph-grammar applications
We propose a six-layer architecture for processing graph-grammar applications. The layers and the transformations between them are formally described...
Semantics and verification of object-role models
In this paper we formalize data models that are based on the concept of predicator, the combination of an...
