Reconciling requirement-driven data warehouses with data sources via multidimensional normal forms
Successful data warehouse (DW) design needs to be based upon a requirement analysis phase in order to adequately represent...
MeDEA: A database evolution architecture with traceability
One of the most important challenges that software engineers (designers, developers) still have to face in their everyday work...
Performance evaluation of the object-relational transformation methodology
The emergence of the object-oriented (OO) methodology has shown its capabilities in modelling the real world better than the...
Deriving semantic information through property covering and inheritance
Covering is a well known relationship in semantic and object-oriented data models. Covering holds when a class is the...
A knowledge representation of the beginning of the innovation process: The Front End of...
The initial phase of the innovation process is widely accepted as an important driver of positive results for new...
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...
An analysis of ontologies and their success factors for application to business
Ontologies have been less successful than they could be in large-scale business applications due to a wide variety of...
Interoperability mapping from XML schemas to ER diagrams
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a de facto standard on the Internet and is now being used to...
EVORM: A conceptual modelling technique for evolving application domains
In this paper we present EVORM, a data modelling technique for evolving application domains. EVORM is the result of...
