The widespread use of XML brings new challenges for its integration into general software development processes. In particular, it is necessary to keep the consistency between diļ¬...
Abstract. This paper discusses schema evolution in software engineering databases. After a study of existing approaches, we show that these approaches do not satisfy software engin...
This paper describes a rule-based algorithm to derive a relational schema from an extended entity-relationship model. Our work is based on an approach by Atzeni and Torlone in whic...
In this paper we present a methodology supporting the definition of data models on basis of a limited set of well-known UML features, thereby allowing these models to be created an...
We propose a semi-automated method for redeploying bioinformatic databases indexed in a Web portal as a decentralized, semantically integrated and service-oriented Data Grid. We g...