Conceptual Modeling – ER ’98: 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Singapore, November 16-19, 1998. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
The Rise, Fall and Return of Software Industry in Japan....Pages 1-6
Conceptual Design and Development of Information Services....Pages 7-20
An EER-Based Conceptual Model and Query Language for Time-Series Data....Pages 21-34
Chrono: A Conceptual Design Framework for Temporal Entities....Pages 35-50
Designing Well-Structured Websites: Lessons to Be Learned from Database Schema Methodology....Pages 51-64
Formalizing the Informational Content of Database User Interfaces....Pages 65-77
A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to Extracting Data from the Web....Pages 78-91
Information Coupling in Web Databases....Pages 92-106
Structure-Based Queries over the World Wide Web....Pages 107-120
Integrated Approach for Modelling of Semantic and Pragmatic Dependencies of Information Systems....Pages 121-134
Inference of Aggregate Relationships through Database Reverse Engineering....Pages 135-149
On the Consistency of Int-cardinality Constraints....Pages 150-163
Realizing Next Generation Internet Applications: Are There Genuine Research Problems, or Is It Advanced Product Development?....Pages 164-164
Web Sites Need Models and Schemes....Pages 165-167
ARTEMIS: A Process Modeling and Analysis Tool Environment....Pages 168-182
From Object Oriented Conceptual Modeling to Automated Programming in Java....Pages 183-196
An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Exploiting Real-World Knowledge by Intelligent Database Design Tools....Pages 197-210
Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models....Pages 211-225
A Transformational Approach to Correct Schema Refinements....Pages 226-239
The Guidelines of Modeling – An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models....Pages 240-254
Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models—Experience in Research and Practice....Pages 255-276
The Troll Approach to Conceptual Modelling: Syntax, Semantics, and Tools....Pages 277-290
Process Failure in a Rapidly Changing High-Tech Organisation: A System Dynamics View....Pages 291-300
ROL2: A Real Deductive Object-Oriented Database Language....Pages 302-315
Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in an OODBMS....Pages 316-333
Implementation of Automatic Lock Determination in C++-Based OODBMSs....Pages 334-347
Do We Need Information Modeling for the Information Highway?....Pages 348-348
Design and Analysis of Quality Information for Data Warehouses....Pages 349-362
Data Warehouse Schema and Instance Design....Pages 363-376
Reducing Algorithms for Materialized View Updates....Pages 377-392
Reengineering Conventional Data and Process Models with Business Object Models: A Case Study Based on SAP R/3 and UML....Pages 393-406
An Active Conceptual Model for Fixed Income Securities Analysis for Multiple Financial Institutions....Pages 407-420
An Entomological Collections Database Model for INPA....Pages 421-434
A Global Object Model for Accommodating Instance Heterogeneities....Pages 435-448
On Formalizing the UML Object Constraint Language OCL....Pages 449-464
Derived Horizontal Class Partitioning in OODBs: Design Strategies, Analytical Model, and Evaluation....Pages 465-479
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