Modularization and automatic composition of Object-Role Modeling (ORM) schemes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3762 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 613-625

  Jarrar, Mustafa ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Composition; Conceptual Modeling; Distributed Development; DOGMA; DogmaModeler; Formal ontology engineering; Maintainability; Modularization; NIAM; Object Role Modeling; Ontology; ORM; Reusability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; REUSABILITY;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; DOGMA; DOGMAMODELER; FORMAL ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; MODULARIZATION; NIAM; OBJECT ROLE MODELING; ONTOLOGY; ORM;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33646714471     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11575863_81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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