For decades, researchers in knowledge representation (KR) have argued for and against various choices in KR formalisms, such as Rules, Frames, Semantic nets, and Formal logic. In ...
Due to the rapid growth of the Web, there is an increasing need for methodologies that support the design of Web-based Information Systems (WIS). After investigating the applicatio...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Richard Vdovj...
Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements in integration eorts, however there ha...
Increasingly, companies recognize that most of their important information does not exist in relational stores but in documents. For a long time, textual information has been rela...
We propose static program analysis techniques for identifying the impact of relational database schema changes upon object-oriented applications. We use dataflow analysis to extra...