The metamodel techniques and model transformation techniques provide a standard way to represent and transform data, especially the software artifacts in software development. How...
In today's software engineering practices, building applications from components is the ongoing trend. What can be noticed however is that there really is not a clear consens...
Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...
Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving tow...
The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description logic. This would enable automated reasoning on the formal properties of ORM diagrams,...