Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '93 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, Arlington, Texas, USA, December 15 - 17, 1993. Proceedings

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Entity-Relationship Approach, held in Arlington, Texas in December 1993; it contains the revised versions of 42 papers selected for presentation at the conference from a total of 87 submissions. The volume presents many...

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Other Authors: Elmasri, Ramez A. (Editor), Kouramajian, Vram (Editor), Thalheim, Bernhard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Performance evaluation of reverse engineering relational databases into extended Entity-Relationship models
  • Transformation-based database reverse engineering
  • Integrating the ER approach in an OO environment
  • An extended entity-relationship approach to data management in object-oriented systems
  • On mapping ER and relational models into OO schemas
  • A repository meta model for interactive systems
  • ER-based Information Retrieval in a mixed database environment
  • A framework for automatic clustering of semantic models
  • Extending ER model clustering by relationship clustering
  • Semantic interoperability of multitemporal relational databases
  • Modeling time: Adequacy of three distinct time concepts for temporal databases
  • Towards a unifying logic formalism for semantic data models
  • Knowledge-based approach for abstracting hierarchical and network schema semantics
  • A state-space approach for database redesign
  • HDM2: Extending the E-R approach to hypermedia application design
  • Database schema design: A perspective from natural language techniques to validation and view integration
  • Transformation of requirement specifications expressed in natural language into an EER model
  • A commonsense reasoning facility based on the entity-relationship model
  • DETERM: Deterministic Event-Tuned Entity-Relationship Modeling
  • A semantic comparison of the modelling capabilities of the ER and NIAM models
  • From entity-relationship models to role-attribute models
  • Analysis of binary relationships within ternary relationships in ER modeling
  • Using conceptual graph theory to support schema integration
  • Integration of heterogeneous object schemas
  • The role of meta models in federating system modelling techniques
  • Multilevel schema integration
  • Reuseof object-oriented requirement specifications
  • The Object Flow Model: A formal framework for describing the dynamic construction, destruction and interaction of complex objects
  • On complex objects and versioning in complex environments
  • Application and system prototyping via an extensible object-oriented environment
  • Reflection in a uniform behavioral object model
  • Relative constraints in ER data models
  • Design and implementation of derived entities
  • Searching for compositions in ER schemes
  • Enhancing the quality of conceptual database specifications through validation
  • Functional dependencies generalized for temporal databases that include object-identity
  • Temporal extensions to a uniform behavioral object model
  • TOOSQL- a temporal object-oriented query language
  • A taxonomy for schema versioning based on the relational and Entity Relationship Models
  • Neighborhood/conceptual query answering with imprecise/incomplete data
  • The entity-relationship model for multilevel security