This book is disseminates the research results and best practices from researchers and practitioners interested in and working on modelling methods and methodologies. Though the need for such studies is well-recognized, there is a paucity of such research in the literature. What specifically distinguishes this book is that it looks at various research domains and areas such as enterprise, process, goal, object-orientation, data, requirements, ontology, and component modelling, to provide an overview of existing approaches and best practices in these conceptually closely-related fields.

Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition, provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling)and much more. In fact, it is the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform knowledge from domain experts into a sound database design. This book is intended for anyone with a stake in the accuracy and efficacy of databases: systems analysts, information modelers, database designers and administrators, and programmers.

Terry Halpin, a pioneer in the development of ORM, blends conceptual information...

This anthology offers research articles focused on key issues concerning the development, design and analysis of databases, taking in data warehousing, information retrieval and knowledge discovery, among other subjects.

Modeling is used across a number of tasks in connection to information systems, but it is rare to see and easily compare all the uses of diagrammatical models as knowledge representation in one place, highlighting both commonalities and differences between different kinds of modeling. Innovations in Information Systems Modeling: Methods and Best Practices provides up-to-date coverage of central topics in information systems modeling and architectures by leading researchers in the field. With chapters presented by top researchers from countries around the globe, this book provides a truly...

This book contain the proceedings of two long-running workshops held in c- nection to the CAiSE conferences relating to the areas of enterprise, busine- process, and information systems modeling th The 10 International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Devel- ment and Support (BPMDS 2009) th The 14 International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for S- tems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD 2009) BPMDS 2009 BPMDS2009wasthetenthinaseriesofworkshopsthathavesuccessfullyserved as a forum for raising and discussing new ideas in the area of business process development and support. The topics...

This book contains the proceedings of two well established scienti?c events held in connection with the CAiSE conferences relating to the areas of enterprise, business-processes, and information systems modeling: - The 11th International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Devel- ment and Support (BPMDS 2010); - The 15th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for S- tems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD 2010). The two events are introduced brie?y below. BPMDS 2010 BPMDS 2010wasthe 11th in a seriesof workshopsthat havesuccessfully served as a forum for raising and discussing new...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2011) and the 16th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD 2011), held together with the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2011) in London, UK, in June 2011.

The 22 papers accepted for BPMDS were selected from 61 submissions and cover a wide spectrum of issues related to business processes development, modeling, and support. They are grouped...

LogiQL is a new state-of-the-art programming language based on Datalog. It can be used to build applications that combine transactional, analytical, graph, probabilistic, and mathematical programming. LogiQL makes it possible to build hybrid applications that previously required multiple programming languages and databases. In this first book to cover LogiQL, the authors explain how to design, implement, and query deductive databases using this new programming language.

LogiQL s declarative approach enables complex data structures and business rules to be simply specified and then...