Abstract. There is a need to integrate XML schemas, i.e., schemas written in XML Schema, into UML-based software development processes. Not only the production of XML schemas out o...
An input to the conceptual database design phase contains a description of the target database. This description is usually given in some natural language, for instance in English...
This paper will present an approach that fosters a seamless integration of documents with corporate information systems. It is based on a conceptually enhanced notion of documents...
The entity–relationship (ER) model, a powerful means for business and data modeling, needs to be enriched with new semantics as the real world changes and its understanding impr...
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...