Journal of Database Management articles from January 2004

Journal of Database Management archives from January 2004

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation methodologies.(Editorial Preface)
January 1, 2004... Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are revolutionalizing the way companies streamline business processes, share information within and across businesses, and conduct electronic business (Lee et al. 2003). The ERP acronym is an outgrowth...

A systematic approach to flexible specification, composition, and restructuring of workflow activities.
January 1, 2004... We introduce the ActivityFlow specification language for flexible specification, composition, and coordination of workflow activities. The most interesting features of the ActivityFlow specification language include: (1) a collection of...

Applying UML and XML for designing and interchanging information for data warehouses and OLAP applications.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Multidimensional (MD) modeling is the basis for data warehouses (DW), multidimensional databases (MDB) and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) applications. In this paper, we present how the unified modeling language (UML) can be...

Informational and computational equivalence in comparing information modeling methods.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Information modeling methods are key to the success of IS development projects. The problem in the software engineering field is not the lack of modeling methods, but the proliferation of modeling methods with little theoretical...

Process-embedded data integrity.(Research Note)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Despite the established theory and the history of the practical use of integrity rules, data quality problems, which should be solvable using data integrity rules, persist in organizations. One effective mechanism to solve this...