Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications

by Patrick Van Bommel (Editor)

Overview

Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. This book not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures) is addressed as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591405276
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	10/31/2004
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.22(w) x 10.28(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Patrick van Bommel received his master's degree in Computer Science in 1990, and the degree of Ph.D from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1995. He is currently assistant professor at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He gives courses in information systems analysis and design, and he supervises a semi-commercial student software house. His main research interests include Information Modeling and Information Retrieval. In Information Modeling, he particularly deals with: modeling techniques for information systems, data models for hyperdocuments and web sites, equivalence and mapping of data models, the transformation of (conceptual) data models into implementations and the corresponding transformation of database populations, operations and constraints. In Information Retrieval his main research interests include: document data modeling, WWW based retrieval/filtering and document characterization languages.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vi
Section I	Fundamentals of Transformations
Chapter I	Transformation-Based Database Engineering	1
Chapter II	Rule-Based Transformation of Graphs and the Product Type	29
Chapter III	From Conceptual Database Schemas to Logical Database Tuning	52
Chapter IV	Transformation Based XML Query Optimization	75
Chapter V	Specifying Coherent Refactoring of Software Artefacts with Distributed Graph Transformations	95
Section II	Elaboration of Transformation Approaches
Chapter VI	Declarative Transformation for Object-Oriented Models	127
Chapter VII	From Conceptual Models to Data Models	148
Chapter VIII	An Algorithm for Transforming XML Documents Schema into Relational Database Schema	171
Chapter IX	Imprecise and Uncertain Engineering Information Modeling in Databases: Models and Formal Transformations	190
Section III	Additional Topics
Chapter X	Analysing Transformations in Performance Management	217
Chapter XI	Multimedia Conversion with the Focus on Continuous Media	235
Chapter XII	Coherence in Data Schema Transformations: The Notion of Semantic Change Patterns	257
Chapter XIII	Model Transformations in Designing the ASSO Methodology	283
	About the Authors	303
	Index	311