An information system maintains a representation of the state of the domain in its Information Base (IB). The state of the IB changes due to the execution of the operations defined...
Abstract. We investigate the computational complexity of reasoning over various fragments of the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) language, which includes a number of constructs:...
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchak...
Although it is possible to present XML Schema graphically, resentations do not raise the level of abstraction for XML schemata in the same way traditional conceptual models raise t...
Reema Al-Kamha, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle
Although OWL provides a solid basis for many semantic-web applications, it lacks sufficient declarative semantics for instance recognition. This omission prevents OWL from being a ...
This paper intends to classify, review, and compare the existing languages for the specification of spatial integrity constraints at the conceptual level. We classify these languag...
We present the semantic data model for an ontological database for subcellular anatomy for Neurosciences. The data model builds upon the foundations of OWL and the Basic Formal Ont...
Amarnath Gupta, Stephen D. Larson, Christopher Con...
Model transformations are playing a vital role in the field of model engineering. However, for non-trivial transformation issues most approaches require imperative definitions, w...
Ensuring the semantic and topological correctness of spatial data is an important requirement in geographical information systems and spatial database systems in order to preserve ...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...