Journal of Database Management articles from July 2003

Journal of Database Management archives from July 2003

Preface.
July 1, 2003... The Research Review category for JDM was introduced a few months back. This issue is the first to contain a research review paper. In this issue, we have one research review paper and three research papers. The research review paper,...

Conceptual modelling and ontology: possibilities and pitfalls.
July 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Conceptual modelling is an activity undertaken during information systems development work to build a representation of selected semantics about some real-world domain. Ontological theories have been developed to account for the...

Modeling temporal dynamics for business systems. (1).
July 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Research in temporal database management has viewed temporal dynamics from a structural perspective, posing extensions to the entity-relationship (E-R) model to represent the state history of time-dependent attributes and...

Transformations between UML diagrams.
July 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The Unified Modeling Language (UML) provides various diagram types for describing a system from different perspectives or abstraction levels. Hence, UML diagrams describing the same system are dependent and strongly overlapping....

RORIB: an economic and efficient solution for real-time online remote information backup.
July 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Data plays an essential role in business today. Most, if not all, E-business applications are database driven, and data backup is a necessary element of managing data. Backup and recovery techniques have always been critical to...