Conceptual Modeling - ER '96: 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Cottbus, Germany, October 7 - 10, 1996. Proceedings. / Edition 1

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Overview

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '96, held in Cottbus, Germany, in October 1996.
The volume presents three invited contributions together with 29 revised full papers selected from 110 submissions. The papers cover all current aspects of the entity-relationship approach and conceptual modeling; they are organized in sections on advanced schema design, processes, query languages, representation, integration, principles of database design, transformation, enhanced modelling, capturing design information, and evolution.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9783540617846
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
  • Publication date: 9/30/1996
  • Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series , #1157
  • Edition description: 1996
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 502
  • Product dimensions: 9.21 (w) x 6.14 (h) x 1.02 (d)

Table of Contents

Impact of Object Oriented Thinking on ER Modeling 1
Translation Schemes and the Fundamental Problem of Database Design 5
Schema Design and Knowledge Discovery 27
Decomposition of Relationships Through Pivoting 28
Understanding the Implementation of IS-A Relations 42
Deductive Object Oriented Schemas 58
Verification Problems in Conceptual Workflow Specifications 73
Process Knowledge Modeling 89
The Conceptual Database Design Optimizer CoDO - Concepts, Implementation, Application 105
ConQuer: A Conceptual Query Language 121
Using Structural Recursion as Query Mechanism for Data Models with References 134
A Modular Design Strategy for a Flexible Graphical Database Design Environment: An Experimental Study 146
Graph Based Modeling and Implementation with EER/GRAL 163
On the Applicability of Schema Integration Techniques to Database Interoperation 179
Integration of Inheritance Trees as Part of View Generation for Database Federations 195
A Formal Basis for Dynamic Schema Integration 211
Graphical Entity Relationship Models: Towards a More User Understandable Representation of Data 227
Benefits and Quality of Data Modelling - Results of an Empirical Analysis 245
Normative Language Approach - A Framework for Understanding 261
Improving Quality in Conceptual Modelling by the Use of Schema Transformations 277
An Approach to Maintaining Optimized Relational Representations of Entity-Relationship Schemas 292
Transforming Conceptual Models to Object-Oriented Database Designs: Practicalities, Properties, and Peculiarities 309
Representing Partial Spatial Information in Databases 325
Specification of Calendars and Time Series for Temporal Databases 341
View-Centered Conceptual Modelling - An Object Oriented Approach 357
Reverse Engineering of Relational Database Physical Schema 372
Extracting N-ary Relationships Through Database Reverse Engineering 392
Inheritance as a Conceptual Primitive 406
iO2: An Algorithmic Method for Building Inheritance Graphs in Object Database Design 422
Workflow Evolution 438
A Model for Classification Structures with Evolution Control 456
Integrating Versions in the OMT Models 472
Author Index 489
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