Conceptual predesign bridging the gap between requirements and conceptual design

C Kop, HC Mayr - Proceedings of IEEE International …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To overcome the impedance mismatch between requirement analysis and conceptual
design, we introduce an intermediate step between the two phases, called conceptual pre …

Asymptotic properties of keys and functional dependencies in random databases

J Demetrovics, GOH Katona, D Miklós… - Theoretical Computer …, 1998 - Elsevier
Practical database applications give the impression that sets of constraints are rather small
and that large sets are unusual and are caused by bad design decisions. Theoretical …

From Models_For_Programming to Modelling_To_Program and Towards Models_As_A_Program

B Thalheim - Modelling to Program: Second International Workshop …, 2021 - Springer
The history of programming languages can be separated into four or five generations. Most
languages are nowadays at the level of the third or fourth generation. The fifth generation …

The use of metaphorical structures for internet sites

B Thalheim, A Düsterhöft - Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2000 - Elsevier
Information services, such as regional or tourist information services, are currently
developed everywhere. Whenever a site gets very large, providers understand the need for …

Capturing information on behaviour with the RADD-NLI: A linguistic and knowledge-based approach

E Buchholz, A Düsterhöft, B Thalheim - Data & knowledge engineering, 1997 - Elsevier
In this paper we illustrate how information on behaviour can be captured from natural
language with the RADD-NLI. The behavioural information contained in verbal descriptions …

Linguistic based search facilities in snowflake-like database schemes

A Düsterhöft, B Thalheim - Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
Development of generic and general search is one of the most difficult tasks in website
development. In practical day life search is not as difficult. The simplification is based on …

Query and answer forms for sophisticated database interfaces

M Berg, A Düsterhöft, B Thalheim - Information Modelling and …, 2013 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Database querying is still based on programming languages. The user must learn the
database programming language and the corresponding database schemata before asking …

The conceptual database design optimizer CoDO—Concepts, implementation, application

M Steeg - International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 1996 - Springer
Traditional database design does not consider operational behavior in detail. In this way,
tuning is a frequent requirement after conceptual, logical and physical design has been …

A Summary of the ER'97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling

SW Liddle, SW Clyde, SN Woodfield - Conceptual Modeling: Current …, 1999 - Springer
Abstract The ER'97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling was held to consider the questions of
what constitutes a “good” behavioral model, and assuming we have such a “good” …

What is the role of cognition in conceptual modeling? A report on the First Workshop on Cognition and Conceptual Modeling

V Ramesh, J Parsons, GJ Browne - Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues …, 1999 - Springer
Conceptual modeling has been advocated as an approach for representing the subject
matter of an information system in a way that better reflects the way users think about that …