Relationships are an integral part of the design of a database. Comparing and integrating relationships from heterogeneous databases requires that the relationships be mapped to ea...
In this paper, two concepts from different research areas are addressed together, namely functional dependency (FD) and multidimensional association rule (MAR). FD is a class of i...
Nowadays, classical conceptual models (such as ER or UML) are used for designing database applications. These classical conceptual models usually come with associated CASE tools a...
Mohammed Minout, Christine Parent, Esteban Zim&aac...
Abstract. Most available approaches for XML schema evolution specify the evolution steps for an XML schema or a DTD. This article will show that schema evolution can also be realiz...
The application of conceptual models that assure both the consistency and usability of Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC's) is a main concern in the e-commerce community, mainl...