In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general objectoriented model for sc...
: The size and complexity of modern information systems together with requirements for short development time increase the demands for reuse of already existing solutions. The idea...
A business process model represents the basic building block for a workflow-enabled enterprise information system. Generally, a process model evolves through numerous changes durin...
One of the obstacles that hinder database trigger systems from their wide deployment is the lack of tools that aid users in creating trigger rules. Similar to understanding and spe...
Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) are the basis for building monitoring tools that enable the supervision of local and remote systems. DASs are complex systems. It is difficult for de...
Innovative e-business projects start with a design of the e-business model. We often encounter the view, in research as well as industry practice, that an e-business model is simil...
Abstract. The popularity and press surrounding the release of XML has created widespread interest in standards within particular communities that focus on representing content. The...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty, Christopher ...
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements in integration eorts, however there ha...