The importance of metadata has been broadly referred in the last years, mainly in the field of data warehousing and decision support systems. Contemporarily, in the adjacent field...
Abstract. Collections play an important part in everyday life. Therefore, conceptual data models should support collection types to make data modeling as natural as possible for it...
Data Warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing systems rely on a multidimensional model that includes dimensions, hierarchies, and measures. Such model allows to express users&...
Conceptual modelling is thought (by academics at least) to be a key activity of Business Systems Analysis. For decades, comprehensive research has been conducted on related topics ...
This paper describes the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a platform for programming against data that raises the level of ion from the logical (relational) level to the conceptual (enti...