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 overview of the ONIONS project: Applying ontologies to the integration of medical terminologies
The paper presents a review of the ONIONS project. ONIONS is committed to developing a large-scale, axiomatized ontology library...
Knowledge maps: An essential technique for conceptualisation
The process of conceptualisation is a fundamental problem-solving activity and, hence, is an essential activity for solving the problem...
Scheduling ontology development projects
In the ontology engineering field, key aspects of real-world business contexts are not normally taken into account. One of...
