Abstract. As information systems are increasingly being called upon to play vital roles in organizations, conceptual modelling techniques need to be extended to relate information ...
: Entities in engineering design databases need to evolve in both structure and behavior. Such a need is not well addressed by object-oriented data models based on the class concep...
: A pattern identifies a problem and provides the specification of a generic solution to that problem. Conceptual modelling patterns are aimed at representing a specific structure ...
Our research works are interested in the identification and the representation of the semantic structures of multimedia documents. The semantic structure of a multimedia document ...
Ecological surveys generate large quantities of data database technology has not yet reached its full potential in this area. Here we investigate approaches to modelling ecologica...