Abstract. The Meta Object Facility (MOF) 2.0 and the Unified Modeling Language Infrastructure introduce new language features such as subsets, (derived) unions and redefinitions, b...
Model integrated computing (MIC) is gaining increased attention as an effective and efficient method for developing, maintaining, and evolving large-scale, domain-specific softwar...
Answering queries over an incomplete database w.r.t. a set of constraints is an important computational task with applications in fields as diverse as information integration and ...
act notation, so separating the abstract syntax and semantics of the language constructs from their different concrete notations. Although the foundation constituents of the MDE a...
We study a metamodel for the Entity Relationship (ER) and the Relational data model. We do this by describing the syntax of the ER data model by introducing classes for ER schemata...