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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Conceptual modeling by analogy and metaphor
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding ...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
ISOLA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Analogy to Promote Conceptual Modeling Reuse
Abstract. This paper argues in favor of a database conceptual schema and Semantic Web ontology design discipline that explores analogy mappings to reuse the structure and integrity...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
ER
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Automatically Grounding Semantically-Enriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services
Abstract. The paper provides a conceptual framework for designing and executing business processes using semantic Web services. We envision a world in which a designer defines a ...
Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal, Dov Dori
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Symmetrically exploiting XML
Path expressions are the principal means of locating data in a hierarchical model. But path expressions are brittle because they often depend on the structure of data and break if...
Shuohao Zhang, Curtis E. Dyreson
VLDB
2007
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Inverse Functions in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform
When integrating data from heterogeneous sources, it is often necessary to transform both the schemas and the data from the underlying sources in order to present the integrated d...
Nicola Onose, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey