A FORMAL DEFINITION FOR OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE METRICS

Aline Lúcia Baroni, Coral Calero, Mario Piattini, Fernando Brito e Abreu

2005

Abstract

Relational databases are the most important in the database world and are evolving to object-relational databases in order to allow the possibility of working with new and complex data and applications. One widely accepted mechanism for assuring the quality of an object-relational database is the use of metrics formally and empirically validated. Also it is important to formalize the metrics for having a better understanding of their definitions. Metrics formalization assures the reliable repetition of their computation and facilitates the automation of metrics collection. In this paper we present the formalization of a set of metrics defined for object-relational databases described using SQL:2003. For doing the formalization we have produced the ontology of the SQL:2003 as a framework for representing the SQL schema definitions. The ontology has been represented using UML and the definition of the metrics has been done using OCL (Object-Constraint Language) which is part of the UML 2.0 standard.

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Lúcia Baroni A., Calero C., Piattini M. and Brito e Abreu F. (2005). A FORMAL DEFINITION FOR OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE METRICS . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 334-339. DOI: 10.5220/0002510503340339


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Aline Lúcia Baroni and Coral Calero and Mario Piattini and Fernando Brito e Abreu},
title={A FORMAL DEFINITION FOR OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE METRICS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={334-339},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002510503340339},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - A FORMAL DEFINITION FOR OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE METRICS
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Lúcia Baroni A.
AU - Calero C.
AU - Piattini M.
AU - Brito e Abreu F.
PY - 2005
SP - 334
EP - 339
DO - 10.5220/0002510503340339