Capturing Telic/Atelic Temporal Data Semantics: Generalizing Conventional Conceptual Models
Time provides context for all our experiences, cognition, and coordinated collective action. Prior research in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and...
Comparing Relationships in Conceptual Modeling: Mapping to Semantic Classifications
Much of the research that deals with understanding the real world and representing it in a conceptual model uses...
Propositional Logic Constraint Patterns and Their Use in UML-Based Conceptual Modeling and Analysis
An important conceptual modeling activity in the development of database, object-oriented and agent-oriented systems is the capture and expression...
The Context and the SitBAC Models for Privacy Preservation—An Experimental Comparison of Model Comprehension...
Situation-Based Access Control (SitBAC) is a conceptual model for representing access control policies of healthcare organizations by characterizing situations...
Augmenting a Conceptual Model with Geospatiotemporal Annotations
While many real-world applications need to organize data based on space (e.g., geology, geomarketing, environmental modeling) and/or time (e.g.,...
Extending BCDM to Cope with Proposals and Evaluations of Updates
The cooperative construction of data/knowledge bases has recently had a significant impulse (see, e.g., Wikipedia ). In cases in...
A Conceptual Clustering Algorithm for Database Schema Design
Conceptual clustering techniques based on current theories of categorization provide a way to design database schemas that more accurately...
Practical Aspects of Teaching an Applied Database Cou rse
The information systems curriculum recommendations proposed by ACM (Nunamaker et al., 1982), IFIP (Buckingham et al., 1987), DPMA (1991),...
AN APPROACH TO ANALYZING THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF EXISTING DATABASES
Traditionally, application databases have bee n developed for efficiency of computer operations . The logical structure of the data...
How Good is that Data in the Warehouse?
A data warehouse is an analytical database used for decision support. Data are copied from production databases, cleaned up,...
