This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '96, held in Cottbus, Germany, in October 1996.
The volume presents three invited contributions together with 29 revised full papers selected from 110 submissions. The papers cover all current aspects of the entity-relationship approach and conceptual modeling; they are organized in sections on advanced schema design, processes, query languages, representation, integration, principles of database design, transformation, enhanced modelling, capturing design information, and evolution.
Author(s): Charles W. Bachman (auth.), Bernhard Thalheim (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1157
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 496
Tags: Database Management; Business Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Logics and Meanings of Programs; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
Impact of objected oriented thinking on ER modeling....Pages 1-4
Translation schemes and the fundamental problem of database design....Pages 5-26
Schema design and knowledge discovery....Pages 27-27
Decomposition of relationships through pivoting....Pages 28-41
Understanding the implementation of IS -A relations....Pages 42-57
Deductive object oriented schemas....Pages 58-72
Verification problems in conceptual workflow specifications....Pages 73-88
Process knowledge modeling....Pages 89-104
The conceptual database design optimizer CoDO — Concepts, implementation, application....Pages 105-120
ConQuer: A conceptual query language....Pages 121-133
Using structural recursion as query mechanism for data models with references....Pages 134-145
A modular design strategy for a flexible graphical database design environment: An experimental study....Pages 146-162
Graph based modeling and implementation with EER/GRAL....Pages 163-178
On the applicability of schema integration techniques to database interoperation....Pages 179-194
Integration of inheritance trees as part of view generation for database federations....Pages 195-210
A formal basis for dynamic schema integration....Pages 211-226
Graphical Entity Relationship models: Towards a more user understandable representation of data....Pages 227-244
Benefits and quality of data modelling — Results of an empirical analysis....Pages 245-260
Normative language approach a framework for understanding....Pages 261-276
Improving quality in conceptual modelling by the use of schema transformations....Pages 277-291
An approach to maintaining optimized relational representations of entity-relationship schemas....Pages 292-308
Transforming conceptual models to object-oriented database designs: Practicalities, properties, and peculiarities....Pages 309-324
Representing partial spatial information in databases....Pages 325-340
Specification of calendars and time series for temporal databases....Pages 341-356
View-centered conceptual modelling....Pages 357-371
Reverse engineering of relational database physical schemas....Pages 372-391
Extracting n-ary relationships through database reverse engineering....Pages 392-405
Inheritance as a conceptual primitive....Pages 406-421
IO2 an algorithmic method for building inheritance graphs in object database design....Pages 422-437
Workflow evolution....Pages 438-455
A model for classification structures with evolution control....Pages 456-471
Integrating versions in the OMT models....Pages 472-487
