Given that most elementary problems in database design are NP-hard, the currently used database design algorithms produce suboptimal results. For example, the current 3NF decompos...
The need to transform data between heterogeneous databases arises from a number of critical tasks in data management. These tasks are complicated by schema evolution in the underl...
In response to the widespread use of the XML format for document representation and message exchange, major database vendors support XML in terms of persistence, querying and inde...
This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined operations to the global schema. Such tailoring and com...
In recent years, comprehensive problem solving by artefact designers has been required as demands related to artefacts become greater and more complicated. In relation to this back...
Kiyotaka Takahashi, Aki Sugiyama, Yoshiki Shimomur...