This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Entity-Relationship Approach, held in Arlington, Texas in December 1993; it contains the revised versions of 42 papers selected for presentation at the conference from a total of 87 submissions.
The volume presents many of the most important results on the ERA published since the predecessor conference ER '92. It is organized in sections on object-oriented models, query languages, applications of the ER model, knowledge-based modeling, data modeling, schema integration, reuse and reengineering, integrating ER and object-orientation, conceptual clustering, modeling time and data semantics.
Author(s): Lissa F. Pollacia, Lois M. L. Delcambre (auth.), Ramez A. Elmasri, Vram Kouramajian, Bernhard Thalheim (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 823
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 534
Tags: Database Management; Models and Principles; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computation by Abstract Devices; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
The Object Flow Model: A formal framework for describing the dynamic construction, destruction and interaction of complex objects....Pages 1-12
On complex objects and versioning in complex environments....Pages 13-23
Application and system prototyping via an extensible object-oriented environment....Pages 24-33
Reflection in a uniform behavioral object model....Pages 34-45
Relative constraints in ER data models....Pages 46-59
Design and implementation of derived entities....Pages 60-73
Searching for compositions in ER schemes....Pages 74-84
Enhancing the quality of conceptual database specifications through validation....Pages 85-98
Functional dependencies generalized for temporal databases that include object-identity....Pages 99-109
Temporal extensions to a uniform behavioral object model....Pages 110-121
TOOSQL- a temporal object-oriented query language....Pages 122-136
A taxonomy for schema versioning based on the relational and Entity Relationship Models....Pages 137-148
Neighborhood/conceptual query answering with imprecise/incomplete data....Pages 149-165
The entity-relationship model for multilevel security....Pages 166-177
HDM2: Extending the E-R approach to hypermedia application design....Pages 178-189
Database schema design: A perspective from natural language techniques to validation and view integration....Pages 190-205
Transformation of requirement specifications expressed in natural language into an EER model....Pages 206-217
A commonsense reasoning facility based on the entity-relationship model....Pages 218-229
DETERM: Deterministic Event-Tuned Entity-Relationship Modeling....Pages 230-241
A semantic comparison of the modelling capabilities of the ER and NIAM models....Pages 242-256
From entity-relationship models to role-attribute models....Pages 257-270
Analysis of binary relationships within ternary relationships in ER modeling....Pages 271-282
Using conceptual graph theory to support schema integration....Pages 283-296
Integration of heterogeneous object schemas....Pages 297-314
The role of meta models in federating system modelling techniques....Pages 315-326
Multilevel schema integration....Pages 327-338
Reuse of object-oriented requirement specifications....Pages 339-351
Performance evaluation of reverse engineering relational databases into extended Entity-Relationship models....Pages 352-363
Transformation-based database reverse engineering....Pages 364-375
Integrating the ER approach in an OO environment....Pages 376-389
An extended entity-relationship approach to data management in object-oriented systems....Pages 390-401
On mapping ER and relational models into OO schemas....Pages 402-413
A repository meta model for interactive systems....Pages 414-425
ER-based Information Retrieval in a mixed database environment....Pages 426-437
A framework for automatic clustering of semantic models....Pages 438-450
Extending ER model clustering by relationship clustering....Pages 451-462
Semantic interoperability of multitemporal relational databases....Pages 463-474
Modeling time: Adequacy of three distinct time concepts for temporal databases....Pages 475-491
Towards a unifying logic formalism for semantic data models....Pages 492-507
Knowledge-based approach for abstracting hierarchical and network schema semantics....Pages 508-519
A state-space approach for database redesign....Pages 520-530
