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Christine Parent
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Database Integration: an Overview of Issues and Approaches
Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent
In many large companies the widespread usage of computers has led a number of different application-specific databases to be installed. As company structures evolve, boundaries between departments move, creating new business units. Their new applications w ...
1998Modeling Time from a Conceptual Perspective
Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent
Although many temporal models have been proposed in the literature, there is still need for a conceptual model capturing the essential semantics of time-varying information that is free of implementation concerns. This paper first discusses important crite ...
1998Conceptual Modeling for Federated Geographical Information Systems over the Web
Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent
A conceptual model provides the best support for federating heterogeneous datastores into a unified framework and elaborating a global consistent description of all available data. It therefore plays a central role for exchange of information within the co ...
1997MADS: un modèle conceptuel pour des applicationsspatio-temporelles
Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Christelle Vangenot, Pierre-André Crausaz, Pier Donini
Malgré les bienfaits reconnus de l'approche conceptuelle pour la modélisation d'applications, les modèles conceptuels spatio-temporels existants ne satisfont pas les besoins des concepteurs. Dans cet article nous identifions d'abord les objectifs d'un modè ...
1997ERC+: an object + Relationship Environment for Database Applications
Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent
The concepts of object oriented data models aim towards modeling of application objects close to the user's view. Yet developers of applications relying on object oriented database management systems are facing problems resulting from the limitations of ob ...
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