Collaborative conceptual schema design: A process model and prototype system

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-371

  Ram, Sudha ^a   Ramesh, V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Conceptual modeling; Database design; Design; Graphical CASE tools; Groupware; H.2.1 Logical Design ; H.4 Information Systems ; K.6.3 Software Development ; Management; Semantic modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE;

COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA DESIGN;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032183858     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/291128.291130     Document Type: Article

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