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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

More Enduring Questions in Cognitive IS Research

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In the April 2012 issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Michael Davern, Teresa Shaft, and...

Variations in Conceptual Modeling: Classification and Ontological Analysis

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Conceptual models are aimed at providing formal representations of a domain. They are mainly used for the purpose of...

Superimposition: Augmenting Machine Learning Outputs with Conceptual Models for Explainable AI

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Machine learning has become almost synonymous with Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, it has many challenges with one of the...

Support for modeling relationships in object-oriented databases

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Modeling real-world applications typically consists of two parts: the representations of entities of interest, and the representations of relationships...

Cardinality constraints in semantic data models

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Constraints are central to the notion of a semantic data model. How well a model captures constraints affects its...

Incoherence and subsumption for recursive views and queries in object-oriented data models

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Object-oriented data models are being extended with recursion to gain expressive power. This complicates both the incoherence detection problem...

Extending OMT to support bottom-up design modelling in a heterogeneous distributed database environment

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We present an extension to the object model of OMT to cope with bottom-up database design. By investigation, it...

Relationship of relationships and other inter-relationship links in E-R model

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The concept of relationship has hitherto been defined as an association between entities. This definition is too restrictive and...

GRAQULA: A graphical query language for entity-relationship or relational databases

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GRAQULA is a graphical language for querying and updating a database. One version of GRAQULA provides a user interface...

An entity-based approach to query processing in relational databases

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An entity-based query interface to relational databases is developed. The interface combines some objectoriented features with the strengths of...