Author Description

The Object Flow Model: A formal framework for describing the dynamic construction, destruction and interaction of complex objects.- On complex objects and versioning in complex environments.- Application and system prototyping via an extensible object-oriented environment.- Reflection in a uniform behavioral object model.- Relative constraints in ER data models.- Design and implementation of derived entities.- Searching for compositions in ER schemes.- Enhancing the quality of conceptual database specifications through validation.- Functional dependencies generalized for temporal databases that include object-identity.- Temporal extensions to a uniform behavioral object model.- TOOSQL- a temporal object-oriented query language.- A taxonomy for schema versioning based on the relational and Entity Relationship Models.- Neighborhood/conceptual query answering with imprecise/incomplete data.- The entity-relationship model for multilevel security.- HDM2: Extending the E-R approach to hypermedia application design.- Database schema design: A perspective from natural language techniques to validation and view integration.- Transformation of requirement specifications expressed in natural language into an EER model.- A commonsense reasoning facility based on the entity-relationship model.- DETERM: Deterministic Event-Tuned Entity-Relationship Modeling.- A semantic comparison of the modelling capabilities of the ER and NIAM models.- From entity-relationship models to role-attribute models.- Analysis of binary relationships within ternary relationships in ER modeling.- Using conceptual graph theory to support schema integration.- Integration of heterogeneous object schemas.- The role of meta models in federating system modelling techniques.- Multilevel schema integration.- Reuse of object-oriented requirement specifications.- Performance evaluation of reverse engineering relational databases into extended Entity-Relationship models.- Transformation-based database reverse engi