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Papers related to ConceptBase

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ConceptBase papers

  1. M.A. Jeusfeld, E. Krüger: Deductive integrity maintenance in an object-oriented setting. Technical report MIP-9013, Universität Passau (postscript).

  2. M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke: From relational to object-oriented integrity simplification. Proc. 2nd Intl. Conf. on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD'91), LNCS 566, Springer-Verlag; technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 91-19 (postscript.gz).

  3. M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Staudt: Query optimization in deductive object bases. In Freytag, Vossen, Maier (eds.): Query Processing for Advanced Database Systems, Morgan-Kaufmann Publ., 1994; technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 91-26 (postscript.gz).

  4. M. Jarke (ed.): ConceptBase V3.1 user manual. Technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 92-17 (postscript.gz, printable only if cut into pieces after each line "%%EOF").

  5. M. Jarke, M. Staudt: An application perspective to deductive object bases. Proc. ACM-SIGMOD Workshop on Combining Declarative and Object-Oriented Databases, Washington D.C., May 1993, 17-30 (postscript).

  6. M. Buchheit, M.A. Jeusfeld, W. Nutt, M. Staudt: Subsumption between queries to object-oriented databases. Proc. EDBT'94, also in Information Systems, 19, 1, March 1994; technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 93-09 (postscript.gz); a longer version is available as DFKI Research Report 93-44 (postscript.gz)

  7. M. Jarke, R. Gallersdörfer, M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Staudt, S. Eherer: ConceptBase - a deductive object base for meta data management. In Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Special Issue on Advances in Deductive Object-Oriented Databases, Vol. 4, No. 2, 167-192, 1995; draft appeared as technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 93-14 (postscript.gz).

  8. M. Staudt, H.W. Nissen, M.A. Jeusfeld: Query by class, rule and concept. In Applied Intelligence, Special Issue on Knowledge Base Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 133-1571994; technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 93-15 (postscript.gz).

  9. M.A. Jeusfeld: Generating queries from complex type definitions. In F. Baader et al. (eds.): "Reasoning about structured objects - knowledge representation meets databases". Working notes of the KI'94 Workshop KRDB'94, Saarbrücken, Sept. 20-22, 1994, DFKI-Report No. D-94-11, DFKI Bibliothek, Postfach 2080, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany (postscript).

  10. M. Staudt, M. Jarke: Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views. In T. M. Vijayaraman, Alejandro P. Buchmann, C. Mohan, Nandlal L. Sarda (eds.): "VLDB'96, Proceedings of 22th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases", September 3-6, 1996, Mumbai (Bombay), India. Morgan Kaufmann 1996, pp. 75-86 (postscript).

  11. M. Jarke, M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Staudt (eds.): ConceptBase V4.1 User Manual. RWTH Aachen, Germany, 1996, ONLINE: http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/CBdoc/userManual-V41/.

  12. M. Staudt, C. Quix, M.A. Jeusfeld: View Maintenance and Change Notification for Application Program Views. In Proc. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'98), Atlanta, Georgia, Feb. 1998, ACM Press, pp. 220-225.

  13. M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke, H.W. Nissen, M. Staudt: ConceptBase - Managing Conceptual Models about Information Systems. In P. Bernus, K. Mertins, G. Schmidt (eds.): Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-540-64453-9, pp. 265-285, (postscript.gz © Springer-Verlag).

  14. M. Jarke, M.A. Jeusfeld, C. Quix (eds.): ConceptBase V5.0 User Manual. RWTH Aachen, Germany, 1998, ONLINE: http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/CBdoc/userManual-V50/.

  15. M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke, M. Staudt, C. Quix, T. List: Application Experience with a Repository System for Information Systems Development. To appear in Proceedings EMISA'99, Teubner-Verlag, 1999 (available to members of the CB Forum).

Application papers

The following papers are by users of ConceptBase. They present applications of the system in reserach and development projects.
  1. M. Jarke (ed.): Database application engineering with DAIDA. Springer-Verlag, 1993.

  2. T. Rose, M. Jarke, M. Gocek, C. Maltzahn and Hans W. Nissen: A decision-based configuration process environment In Software Engineering Journal , 6, 5, pp 332 - 346.

  3. T. Rose, M. Jarke, J. Mylopoulos: Organizing software repositories - modeling requirements and implementation experiences. Proc. 16th Intl. Computer Software & Applications Conf., Chicago, Ill., Sept. 23-25, 1992.

  4. P. Assenova: Concept formation by reverse modelling, Esprit NATURE Report Series, 92-10, RWTH Aachen, 1992 (postscript.Z).

  5. B. Ramesh, Luqi: Process knowledge based rapid prototyping for requirements engineering. Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. Requirements Engineering (RE'93), San Diego, Ca., Jan. 4-6, 1993.

  6. B. Ramesh, V. Dhar: Supporting systems development by capturing deliberations during requirements engineering. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 18, 6, pp. 498 - 510.

  7. B.A. Nixon: Representing and using performance requirements during the development of information systems. Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. EDBT'94, LNCS, 779, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

  8. M. Jarke, M.A. Jeusfeld, P. Szczurko: Three aspects of intelligent cooperation in the quality cycle. In Intl. Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 2, 4, Dec. 1993; also appeared as technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 93-21 (postscript.gz).

  9. S. Gastinger, R. Hennicker, R. Stabl: Reusing software components with polymorphic signatures. Technical report (KORSO project), LMU München, Institut Informatik, D-80802 München, Germany, 1994.

  10. A. Pirotte, E. Zimanyi, D. Massart, T. Yakusheva: Materialization - a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern. Proc. VLDB'94, Santiago, Chile, Sept. 12-15, 1994.

  11. M.A. Jeusfeld, U.A. Johnen: An executable meta model for re-engineering of database schemas. Proc. ER'94, Manchester, UK, Dec. 1994; also appeared as technical report Aachener Informatik-Berichte 94-19 (postscript.gz).

  12. Q.C. Dang, T. Baylis, D. Patel: Modelling a business through Soft Systems Methodology in end user development: a claim and an approach. Proc. CAiSE*95 Workshop on Supporting end user development with visual programming and object-orientation, Mehandijiev N. and Bottaci L. (eds.), Jyvaskyla, Finland, 12 June, 1995 (postscript).

  13. D.Briukhov, S.Shumilov: Ontology Specification and Integration Facilities in a Semantic Interoperation Framework. Proc. Second International Workshop on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS'95), Moscow, June 27 - 30, 1995 (postscript).

  14. G.V. Zemanek, H.W. Nissen: Formales System und Vorgehensweise zur Modellierung von Geschäftsprozessen. Proc. EMISA-Fachgruppentreffen '95, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 12-13, 1995 (postscript).

  15. H.W. Nissen, M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke, G.V. Zemanek, H. Huber: Requirements Analysis from Multiple Perspectives: Experiences with Conceptual Modeling Technology. 2nd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Requirements Engineering, Colorado Springs, USA, April 15-18, 1996 (postscript.Z).

  16. E. v. Hahn: Meta-modeling in ConceptBase - Demonstrated on FUSION. Studienarbeit, TU München, Lehrstuhl Prof. M. Broy, 1996 (postscript.gz).

  17. P. Fröhlich, W. Nejdl: WebRC: Configuration Management for a Cooperation Tool. Appears in Proc. Software Configuration Management (SCM'7), Boston, USA, 1997 (postscript).

  18. C. Reck, B. König-Ries: An architecture for transparent access to heterogeneous information sources. To be published at CIA '97 (postscript).

  19. W.N. Robinson: Automated Assistance for Conflict Resolution in Multiple Perspective System Analysis and Operation. In Proc. ACM Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, October 14-15, 1996, San Francisco, USA (postscript).

  20. M. Staudt, J.-U. Kietz, U. Reimer: ADLER - An Environment for Mining Insurance Data. In Proceedings 4th Intl. Workshop Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB '97), Athens, Greece, August 30, 1997 (postscript).

  21. W.N. Robinson, S. Volkov: A Meta-Model for Restructuring Stakeholder Requirements. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'97), IEEE Computer Society Press, Boston, USA, May 17-24, 1997 (postscript).

  22. P. Fröhlich, W. Nejdl: A Database-Oriented Approach to the Design of Educational Hyperbooks. In Proc. Workshop Intelligent Educational Systems on the World Wide Web, 8th World Conference of the AIED Society, Kobe, Japan, 18-22 August 1997 (html).

  23. A. Eberlein: Requirements Acquisition and Specification for Telecommunication Services. PhD Thesis, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 1997 (postscript.tar.gz).

  24. Michael Petit, E. Dubois: Defining an Ontology for the Formal Requirements Engineering of Manufacturing Systems. In Proc. International Conference on Enterprise Integration an Modeling Technology (ICEIMT'97), Springer, 1997 (postscript.Z).

  25. M. Jarke, M.A. Jeusfeld, C. Quix, P. Vassiliadis: Architecture and quality in data warehouses. In B. Pernici, C. Thanos (eds.): Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Proceedings 10th Intl. Conf. CAiSE*98, Pisa, Italy, June 8-12, 1998, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (available to members of the CB Forum).

  26. M. Staudt, J.-U. Kietz, U. Reimer: A Data Mining Support Environment and its Application on Insurance Data. In Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'98), New York, August 1998.

  27. M. Dahchour: Formalizing Materialization using a Metaclass Approach. In B. Pernici, C. Thanos (eds.): Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Proceedings 10th Intl. Conf. CAiSE*98, Pisa, Italy, June 8-12, 1998, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (available to members of the CB Forum).

  28. M.A. Jeusfeld, C. Quix, M. Jarke: Design and Analysis of Quality Information for Data Warehouses. To appear in Proc. 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ( ER'98), Singapore, Nov 16-19, 1998 (available to members of the CB Forum).

  29. W. Nejdl, M. Wolpers: KBS Hyperbook - A Data-Driven Information System on the Web. Technical Report, University of Hannover, Germany, 1998 (html).

  30. W.N. Robinson, S. Pawlowski: Managing Requirements Inconsistency with Development Goal Monitors. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Nov/Dec 1999 (pdf).

  31. M. Ashrafuzzaman: Deductive Object-Oriented Database for Geographic Data Handling. Course project CMPT826, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, March 1996 (postscript.gz).

Related papers

  1. J. Mylopoulos, A. Borgida, M. Jarke, M. Koubarakis: Telos -- a language for representing knowledge about information systems. In ACM Trans. Information Systems, 8, 4, 1990, pp. 325-362.

  2. M.A. Jeusfeld: Änderungskontrolle in deduktiven Objektbanken. Dissertation, DISKI-19, Infix-Verlag, St. Augustin, Germany, 1992 (postscript of a summary; full text available to members of the CB Forum).

  3. S. Greenspan, J. Mylopoulos, A. Borgida: On formal requirements modeling languages: RML revisited. In Proc. 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1994, pp. 135-148 (postscript).

  4. M. Staudt: View Management in Client-Server Systems (in German). Infix-Verlag, St. Augustin, Germany, 1997.

ConceptBase in Teaching

  1. WWW-Based Software Engineering reading project by W. Robinson at Georgia State University, USA
  2. Teaching project KBS Virtual Classroom at University of Hannover, Germany
  3. Course Softwaretechnik by Lutz Prechtelt at University of Karlsruhe
  4. Course Advanced Database Management by Munindar P. Singh at North Carolina State University

Presentations, Talks

Following a list of talks on ConceptBase with links to downloadable representations of the slides.
  1. M.A. Jeusfeld: ConceptBase - Eine Metadatenbank für konzeptuelle Modellierungsaufgaben. Kolloquium der GI-Regionalgruppe Aachen (RGI), Aachen, 26-Feb-1997 (in German, gifs)
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