Hierarchies in a multidimensional model:From conceptual modeling to logical representation
Hierarchies are used in data warehouses (DWs) and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems to see data at differ-ent levels...
An approach to test-driven development of conceptual schemas
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an extreme programming development method in which asoftware system is developed in short iterations. In...
COMIC: A system and methodology for conceptual modelling and information construction
The design of an IS requires that concepts and rules, i.e. a conceptual schema defining the...
Computing repairs for constraint violations in UML/OCLconceptual schemas
Updating the contentsof an information base may violate some of the constraints defined over theschema. The classical way to...
Towards object-oriented conceptual modeling
According to the object-oriented conceptual modeling approach that we present, a conceptual schema is a collection of...
Defining and validating metrics for assessingthe understandability of entity–relationship diagrams
Database and data model evolution cause significant problems in the highly dynamic business environment that weexperience these days. To...
Linguistically based conceptual modeling of business communication
In the performance of activities in an organization, communication plays a dominant role in that it allows people tocoordinate...
Assessing the quality of domain ontologies: Metrics and anautomated ranking system
The ability of a user to select an appropriate, high-quality domain ontology from a set of availableoptions would be...
A conceptual modeling framework for network analytics
In this paper we propose a conceptual modeling framework for network analysis applications.Within this framework, a data model called...
Conceptual-model-based data extraction from multiple-recordWeb pages
Electronically available data on the Web is exploding at an ever increasing pace. Much of this data is unstructured,which...
