Ramez a Elmasri

Entity-relationship Approach - Er'93: 12th International Conference on the Entity-relationship Approach, Arlington, Texas, Usa, December 15-17, 1993 - Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Ramez a Elmasri

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 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 engineering.- Integrating the ER approach in an OO environment.- An extended entity-relationship approach to data management in object-oriented systems.- On mapping ER and relational models into OO schemas.- A repository meta model for interactive systems.- ER-based Information Retrieval in a mixed database environment.- A framework for automatic clustering of semantic models.- Extending ER model clustering by relationship clustering.- Semantic interoperability of multitemporal relational databases.- Modeling time: Adequacy of three distinct time concepts for temporal databases.- Towards a unifying logic formalism for semantic data models.- Knowledge-based approach for abstracting hierarchical and network schema semantics.- A state-space approach for database redesign. Publisher Marketing: This volume of conference proceedings is divided into sections on object-oriented models, query languages, applications of the ER model, knowledge-based modelling, data modelling, scheme integration, reuse and re-engineering, conceptual clustering, time modelling and data semantics.

Contributor Bio:  Elmasri, Ramez Ramez Elmasri is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Elmasri completed his M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science at Stanford University.