Ebook: Conceptual Modelling and Its Theoretical Foundations: Essays Dedicated to Bernhard Thalheim on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

This Festschrift, published in honor of Bernhard Thalheim on the occasion of his 60th birthday presents 20 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Bernhard Thalheim had cooperation in various respects; also included is a scientific biography contributed by the volume editors. The 20 contributions reflect the breadth and the depth of the work of Bernhard Thalheim in conceptual modeling and database theory during his scientific career spanning more than 35 years of active research. In particular, ten articles are focusing on topics like database dependency theory, object-oriented databases, triggers, abstract state machines, database and information systems design, web semantics, and business processes.

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This Festschrift, published in honor of Bernhard Thalheim on the occasion of his 60th birthday presents 20 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Bernhard Thalheim had cooperation in various respects; also included is a scientific biography contributed by the volume editors.

The 20 contributions reflect the breadth and the depth of the work of Bernhard Thalheim in conceptual modeling and database theory during his scientific career spanning more than 35 years of active research.
In particular, ten articles are focusing on topics like database dependency theory, object-oriented databases, triggers, abstract state machines, database and information systems design, web semantics, and business processes.

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This Festschrift, published in honor of Bernhard Thalheim on the occasion of his 60th birthday presents 20 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Bernhard Thalheim had cooperation in various respects; also included is a scientific biography contributed by the volume editors.

The 20 contributions reflect the breadth and the depth of the work of Bernhard Thalheim in conceptual modeling and database theory during his scientific career spanning more than 35 years of active research.
In particular, ten articles are focusing on topics like database dependency theory, object-oriented databases, triggers, abstract state machines, database and information systems design, web semantics, and business processes.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Dedication to a Theory of Modelling....Pages 1-6
What about Constraints in RDF?....Pages 7-18
Some Remarks on Relational Database Schemes Having Few Minimal Keys....Pages 19-28
Random Databases with Correlated Data....Pages 29-35
Statistical Inference for R?nyi Entropy Functionals....Pages 36-51
The Subject-Oriented Approach to Software Design and the Abstract State Machines Method....Pages 52-72
BCNF via Attribute Splitting....Pages 73-84
Foundations for a Fourth Normal Form over SQL-Like Databases....Pages 85-100
Independent Update Reflections on Interdependent Database Views....Pages 101-115
Abstract State Machines for Data-Parallel Computing....Pages 116-135
OSM-Logic: A Fact-Oriented, Time-Dependent Formalization of Object-oriented Systems Modeling....Pages 136-150
Cloaking Data to Ease View Creation, Query Expression, and Query Execution....Pages 151-172
On Models of Concepts and Data....Pages 173-189
Model Transformation By-Example: A Survey of the First Wave....Pages 190-196
On Computing the Importance of Associations in Large Conceptual Schemas....Pages 197-215
Conceptual Modeling of Human Genome: Integration Challenges....Pages 216-230
Transforming Geometrically Enhanced Conceptual Model Schemas to GML....Pages 231-250
Extensional Logic of Hyperintensions....Pages 251-267
Culture Sensitive Aspects in Software Engineering....Pages 268-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-315
Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing with Impression-Based Semantic Spaces....Pages -
....Pages 316-328