Abstract
A well-designed Conceptual Schema should be flexible enough to allow future change. But current methods for the design and maintenance of Conceptual Schemas are not based on insight into the actual evolution of the Conceptual Schema over time. The relationships between the demand of flexibility, the quality aspect stability, and evolution of the Conceptual Schema are not well understood or investigated. Advance in current design practices and maintenance of information systems depends on the understanding of the relation between actual properties of a Conceptual Schema and its evolution.
Chapter PDF
References
Crowe T.J. Integration is not synonymous with flexibility, Int. J. of Operations & Production Management vol 12,no 10 (1992) 26–33
Di Battista G., Kangassalo H., Tamassia R. Definition libraries for Conceptual Modelling, Proceedings of the 7th Int. Conf. on the Entity-Relationship Approach, ed. Batini (1989) Elsevier Science Publishers 251–267
Filteau M.C., Kassicieh S.K., Tripp R.S. Evolutionary Database Design and development in Very Large Scale MIS, Information & Management vol 15 (1988) 203–212
Giacommazzi F., Panella C., Percini B., Sansoni M. Information systems integration in mergers and acquisitions, Information & Management vol 32 (1997) 289–302
Jajodia S., Ng P.A., Springsteel F.N. The problem of equivalence for Entity-Relationship diagrams, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering vol 9,no 5 (1983) 617–630
Kesh S. Evaluating the quality of Entity Relationship models, Information and Software Technology vol 37 (1995) 681–689
Moody D. Seven habits of Highly Effective Datamodellers, Database Programming & Design (1996) 57–64
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Wedemeijer, L. (1999). Design the Flexibility, Maintain the Stability of Conceptual Schemas. In: Jarke, M., Oberweis, A. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1626. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48738-7_40
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48738-7_40
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-66157-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48738-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive