@inproceedings{28b510100ab14dfc9d5c45eed5fcb805,
title = "Identifying a forest hierarchy in an OODB specialization hierarchy satisfying disciplined modeling",
abstract = "Our work is motivated by the desire to develop methods to comprehend large vocabularies and large schemas of object-oriented databases. The ability of a user of a database participating in a federated system to retrieve information from the other database systems will be greatly enhanced by acquiring a better comprehension of these systems. The authors are trying to develop both a theoretical paradigm and a methodology to analyze existing large schemas. Their approach to achieve comprehension is based on combining two concepts: informational thinning (i.e. concentration on the specialization hierarchy of the schema) and partitioning. They present a new technique for modeling which is called disciplined modeling. Based on the rules of disciplined modeling we develop a theoretical paradigm to support the existence of a meaningful forest hierarchy within the specialization hierarchy. Such a hierarchy functions as a skeleton of the schema and supports comprehension and partitioning efforts.",
author = "Yehoshua Perl and James Geller and Huanying Gu",
year = "1996",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/COOPIS.1996.555010",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 1st IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 1996",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "182--195",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 1st IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 1996",
address = "United States",
note = "1st IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 1996 ; Conference date: 19-06-1996 Through 21-06-1996",
}