The development of object-oriented software starts from requirements expressed commonly as Use Cases. The requirements are then converted into a conceptual or analysis model. Analy...
The application of conceptual models that assure both the consistency and usability of Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC's) is a main concern in the e-commerce community, mainl...
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...
The need for descriptive information, i.e., metadata, about Web resources has been recognized in several application contexts (e.g., digital libraries, portals). The Resource Descr...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
Model management is a framework for supporting meta-data related applications where models and mappings are manipulated as first class objects using operations such as Match, Merge...
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...
Warehouse view self-maintenance refers to maintaining materialized views at a data warehouse without accessing source data. Self-maintenance has been studied for nontemporal views...