Allocating Data and Operations to Nodes in Distributed Database Design
The allocation of data and operations to nodes in a computer communications network is a critical issue in distributed...
Naive semantics to support automated database design
Research devoted to developing knowledge-based tools for database design has demonstrated that it is possible to encode a great...
Coping with Events in Temporal Relational Databases
Event relations are used in many temporal relational database approaches to represent facts occurring at time instants. However, to...
Irregular Indeterminate Repeated Facts in Temporal Relational Databases
Time is pervasive of reality, and many relational database approaches have been developed to cope with it. In practical...
Ancestor Controlled Submodule inclusion in Design Databases
A paradigm is proposed for representing hierarchically specified design data in CAD database systems where there are to be...
A Survey of Languages for Specifying Dynamics: A Knowledge Engineering Perspective
During the last years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems has been developed. Characteristics for knowledge-based...
The Role of Polymorphic Reuse Mechanisms in Schema Evolution in an Object-Oriented Database
A seamless approach to the incremental design and reuse of object-oriented methods and query specifications is presented. We argue...
Evaluating Wiki Collaborative Features in Ontology Authoring
It is nowadays well-established that the construction of quality domain ontologies benefits from the involvement in the modelling process...
Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development
This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating...
One-to-one Dependencies in Database Design
The types of dependencies between objects in some reality determine to a large extent the structure of its database...
