Entity-relationship approach-- ER '94 : business modelling and re-engineering : 13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, Manchester, United Kingdom, December 13-16, 1994 : proceedings

This Volume Constitutes The Proceedings Of The 13th International Conference On The Entity-relationship Approach, Er '94, Held In Manchester, Uk In December 1994. The Er '94 Book Is Devoted To Business Modelling And Re-engineering And Provides A Balanced View Between Research And Practical Experience. The 34 Full Revised Papers Presented Are Organized In Sections On Business Process Modelling, Enterprise Modelling, Systems Evolution, Modelling Integrity Constraints, Object-oriented Databases, Active Databases, Case, Reverse Engineering, Information System Modelling, Schema Coordination, And Re-engineering.--publisher's Website. P. Loucopoulos, Ed. Includes Bibliographical References. Reflections on the relationship between BPR and software process modelling....Pages 1-9 Specifying business processes over objects....Pages 10-27 Deriving complex structured object types for business process modelling....Pages 28-45 Business process modeling in the workflow management environment Leu ....Pages 46-63 An assisting method for enterprise-wide conceptual data modeling in the bottom-up approach....Pages 64-78 Organisational and information system modelling for information systems requirements determination....Pages 79-93 What makes a good data model? Evaluating the quality of entity relationship models....Pages 94-111 Database evolution: the DB-MAIN approach....Pages 112-131 Database schema evolution through the specification and maintenance of changes on entities and relationships....Pages 132-151 Method restructuring and consistency checking for object-oriented schemas....Pages 152-170 State-conditioned semantics in databases....Pages 171-188 Modelling constraints with exceptions in object-oriented databases....Pages 189-204 Declarative specification of constraint maintenance....Pages 205-222 On the representation of objects with polymorphic shape and behavior....Pages 223-240 A normal form object-oriented entity relationship diagram....Pages 241-258 COMan — coexistence of object-oriented and relational technology....Pages 259-277 Cardinality consistency of derived objects in DOOD systems....Pages 278-295 Conceptual modelling and manipulation of temporal databases....Pages 296-313 Process repositories: Principles and experiences....Pages 314-314 A formal software specification tool using the entity-relationship model....Pages 315-332 An overview of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory extended entity-relationship database tools....Pages 333-350 A generic data model for the support of multiple user interaction facilities....Pages 351-368 Using queries to improve database reverse engineering....Pages 369-386 Reconstruction of ER schema from database applications: a cognitive approach....Pages 387-402 Extracting an entity relationship schema from a relational database through reverse engineering....Pages 403-419 Leveled entity relationship model....Pages 420-436 Formalised conceptual models as a foundation of information systems development....Pages 437-455 Abstraction levels for entity-relationship schemas....Pages 456-473 Coordination system modelling....Pages 474-490 Virtual structures — A technique for supporting scientific database applications....Pages 491-512 Resolving fragmentation conflicts in schema integration....Pages 513-532 An executable meta model for re-engineering of database schemas....Pages 533-547 From E-R to “A-R” — Modelling strategic actor relationships for business process reengineering....Pages 548-565 Standard-driven re-engineering of entity-relationship schemas....Pages 566-579