Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '94. Business Modelling and Re-Engineering

13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, Manchester, United Kingdom, December 13 - 16, 1994 Proceedings
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-3-540-58786-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 585 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1840 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, ER '94, held in Manchester, UK in December 1994.
The ER '94 book is devoted to business modelling and re-engineering and provides a balanced view between research and practical experience. The 34 full revised papers presented are organized in sections on business process modelling, enterprise modelling, systems evolution, modelling integrity constraints, object-oriented databases, active databases, CASE, reverse engineering, information system modelling, schema coordination, and re-engineering.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loucopoulos, Pericles

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Systemverwaltung & Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Datenbankprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Reflections on the relationship between BPR and software process modelling.- Specifying business processes over objects.- Deriving complex structured object types for business process modelling.- Business process modeling in the workflow management environment Leu.- An assisting method for enterprise-wide conceptual data modeling in the bottom-up approach.- Organisational and information system modelling for information systems requirements determination.- What makes a good data model? Evaluating the quality of entity relationship models.- Database evolution: the DB-MAIN approach.- Database schema evolution through the specification and maintenance of changes on entities and relationships.- Method restructuring and consistency checking for object-oriented schemas.- State-conditioned semantics in databases.- Modelling constraints with exceptions in object-oriented databases.- Declarative specification of constraint maintenance.- On the representation of objects with polymorphic shape and behavior.- A normal form object-oriented entity relationship diagram.- COMan — coexistence of object-oriented and relational technology.- Cardinality consistency of derived objects in DOOD systems.- Conceptual modelling and manipulation of temporal databases.- Process repositories: Principles and experiences.- A formal software specification tool using the entity-relationship model.- An overview of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory extended entity-relationship database tools.- A generic data model for the support of multiple user interaction facilities.- Using queries to improve database reverse engineering.- Reconstruction of ER schema from database applications: a cognitive approach.- Extracting an entity relationship schema from a relational database through reverse engineering.-Leveled entity relationship model.- Formalised conceptual models as a foundation of information systems development.- Abstraction levels for entity-relationship schemas.- Coordination system modelling.- Virtual structures — A technique for supporting scientific database applications.- Resolving fragmentation conflicts in schema integration.- An executable meta model for re-engineering of database schemas.- From E-R to “A-R” — Modelling strategic actor relationships for business process reengineering.- Standard-driven re-engineering of entity-relationship schemas.