Extracting ontological concepts for tendering conceptual structures
It has been argued that beyond software engineering and process engineering, ontological engineering is the third capability needed if...
Drafting ER and OO schemas in prototype environments
The system Queer is a prototype of an information system design tool which directly supports an extended Entity-Relationship model...
Information modeling: The process and the required competencies of its participants
In recent literature it is commonly agreed that the first phase of the software development process is still an...
Natural language analysis for semantic document modeling
To ease the retrieval of documents published on the Web, the documents should be classified in a way that...
Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements...
An object-oriented operation-based approach to translation between MOF metaschemas
This paper proposes a new approach to the schema translation problem. We deal with schemas whose metaschemas are instances...
How to structure and access XML documents with ontologies
The current hype on Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) produced hundreds of XML-based applications. Many of them oer document type...
Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: An overview
Knowledge bases, data bases and object-oriented systems (referred to in the paper as Object-Centered systems) all rely on attributes...
An integrated, dual learner for grammars and ontologies
We introduce a dual-use methodology for automating the maintenance and growth of two types of knowledge sources, which are...
Enriching the class diagram concepts to capture natural language semantics for database access
Research on accessing databases using natural languages usually utilizes an intermediate logical form for the mapping process from natural...
