CABSYDD: Case-Based System for Database Design.
The majority of the reported researcb and development efforts on auto- mated techniques and tools for conceptual database design...
A Query-Driven Approach to the Design and Management of Flexible Database Systems
The need for timely infonnation in the e-business world provides the impetus to develop a flexible database system with...
An approach to object identification, selection and specification in object‐oriented analysis
When using current object-oriented methods in the development of computer-based information systems, problems frequently arise in the identification and...
Form and Substance in Physical Database Design: An Empirical Study
As with many complex design problems, physical database design is difficult, ill-structured, and highly human intensive. In order to...
Towards the construction of workflow‐suitable conceptual modelling techniques
Despite their high-level and graphical nature, workflow specificationsrequire a significant amount of implementation detail Ð for example applicationprogramming interface,...
Are Attributes Entities? A Study of Database Designers’ Memory Structures
A longstanding debate in the data modeling literature pertains to whether the grammars used to generate conceptual schemas should...
The role of modelling in achieving information systems success: UML to the rescue?
Much computer science literature addresses the mechanics of theUnified Modelling Language (UML) and requirements modelling, but little researchhas addressed...
Should Optional Properties Be Used in Conceptual Modelling? A Theory and Three Empirical Tests
An important feature of some conceptual modelling grammars is the features they provide to allow database designers to show...
Semantic database prototypes
This paper describes a technique for improving the semantic consensus of conceptual database designs. Semantic consensus is a condition...
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling–A Research Agenda
Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some...
