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System evolution and re-engineering are becoming increasingly important as the size and complexity of Information Systems continue to grow. The paper addresses the problems related to the development of abstraction mechanisms for discovering the essential conceptual schema of a system, that is, a high level description of its most significant concepts, to be used for matching and validating changes to the system.
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Castano, S., De Antonellis, V. (1994). Standard-driven re-engineering of entity-relationship schemas. In: Loucopoulos, P. (eds) Entity-Relationship Approach — ER '94 Business Modelling and Re-Engineering. ER 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58786-1_102
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