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Conceptual Modeling - ER '96

15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Cottbus, Germany, October 7 - 10, 1996. Proceedings.

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  • © 1996

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  1. Bernhard Thalheim
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1157)

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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.

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Table of contents (32 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Impact of objected oriented thinking on ER modeling

    • Charles W. Bachman
    Pages 1-4

  3. Translation schemes and the fundamental problem of database design

    • J. A. Makowsky, E. V. Ravve
    Pages 5-26

  4. Schema design and knowledge discovery

    • Heikki Mannila
    Pages 27-27

  5. Decomposition of relationships through pivoting

    • Joachim Biskup, Ralf Menzel, Torsten Polle, Yehoshua Sagiv
    Pages 28-41

  6. Understanding the implementation of IS-A relations

    • J -L. Hainaut, J -M. Hick, V. Englebert, J. Henrard, D. Roland
    Pages 42-57

  7. Deductive object oriented schemas

    • Dimitri Theodoratos
    Pages 58-72

  8. Verification problems in conceptual workflow specifications

    • A. H. M. ter Hofstede, M. E. Orlowska, J. Rajapakse
    Pages 73-88

  9. Process knowledge modeling

    • Pierre Maret, Jean-Marie Pinon
    Pages 89-104

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

    • Martin Steeg
    Pages 105-120

  11. ConQuer: A conceptual query language

    • A. C. Bloesch, T. A. Halpin
    Pages 121-133

  12. Using structural recursion as query mechanism for data models with references

    • Wolfram Clauss
    Pages 134-145

  13. A modular design strategy for a flexible graphical database design environment: An experimental study

    • Margita Altus
    Pages 146-162

  14. Graph based modeling and implementation with EER/GRAL

    • J. Ebert, A. Winter, P. Dahm, A. Franzke, R. Süttenbach
    Pages 163-178

  15. On the applicability of schema integration techniques to database interoperation

    • Mark W. W. Vermeer, Peter M. G. Apers
    Pages 179-194

  16. Integration of inheritance trees as part of view generation for database federations

    • Ingo Schmitt, Gunter Saake
    Pages 195-210

  17. A formal basis for dynamic schema integration

    • Love Ekenberg, Paul Johannesson
    Pages 211-226

  18. Graphical Entity Relationship models: Towards a more user understandable representation of data

    • Daniel Moody
    Pages 227-244

  19. Benefits and quality of data modelling — Results of an empirical analysis

    • Ronald Maier
    Pages 245-260

  20. Normative language approach a framework for understanding

    • Erich Ortner, Bruno Schienmann
    Pages 261-276
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