Improving quality in conceptual modelling by the use of schema transformations

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

Volumn 1157 LNCS, Issue , 1996, Pages 277-291

  Assenova, Petia ^a   Johannesson, Paul ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS; MAJOR FACTORS; OVERALL QUALITY; QUALITY CRITERIA; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATION; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84899851240     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0019929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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