ACTIVE MECHANISMS FOR CHECKING PARTICIPATION CONSTRAINTS IN UML

Djamel Berrabah, Charles-François Ducateau, Faouzi Boufarès

2006

Abstract

The automation of the database design process using CASE tools is among the multiple efforts devoted to face the problems of database modeling. These tools often do not take into account all information presented in a conceptual schema. Consequently, the relational elements obtained during these processes do not coincide completely with the conceptual elements, and that produces some semantic losses. The idea is to enrich these tools and to improve them in order to solve some problems of modeling. The goal of this work is to propose an efficient approach to generate mechanisms that preserve the participation constraints during the transformation of a conceptual schema into a relational one.

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Berrabah D., Ducateau C. and Boufarès F. (2006). ACTIVE MECHANISMS FOR CHECKING PARTICIPATION CONSTRAINTS IN UML . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-41-2, pages 310-313. DOI: 10.5220/0002453903100313


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Djamel Berrabah and Charles-François Ducateau and Faouzi Boufarès},
title={ACTIVE MECHANISMS FOR CHECKING PARTICIPATION CONSTRAINTS IN UML},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={310-313},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002453903100313},
isbn={978-972-8865-41-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - ACTIVE MECHANISMS FOR CHECKING PARTICIPATION CONSTRAINTS IN UML
SN - 978-972-8865-41-2
AU - Berrabah D.
AU - Ducateau C.
AU - Boufarès F.
PY - 2006
SP - 310
EP - 313
DO - 10.5220/0002453903100313