Temporal data models have been used to describe how data can evolve in the context of temporal databases. Both the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) model and the Unified Modelli...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryz...
As XML data storage and interchange become ubiquitous, analysts and data engineers increasingly need tools to model their data and map it to XML schemas and to reverse engineer XML...
Reema Al-Kamha, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle
Nowadays, many applications need data modeling facilities for the description of complex objects with spatial and/or temporal facilities. Responses to such requirements may be fou...
A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...