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Transactions in ORM

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2009, EMMSAD 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 29))

Abstract

Languages for specifying information systems should not only contain a data definition (sub)language (DDL), i.e., a part for specifying data structures, but also a data retrieval (sub)language (DRL), i.e., a part for specifying queries, and a data manipulation (sub)language (DML), i.e., a part for specifying transactions.

The language ORM contains a DDL and a DRL (ConQuer), but it does not contain a sufficient DML as yet. We therefore propose an extension of ORM with a DML, for specifying transactions to be easily validated by domain experts.

We introduce the following set of standard classes of specifiable transactions: add an instance, add a query result, remove a subset, and change a subset. We also treat compound transactions in ORM.

In ORM there are usually several ways to specify something. For all transactions we therefore propose syntaxes, verbalizations, and diagrams as well. They allow for type-checking and easy validation by domain experts.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, AV Groningen, The Netherlands

    E. O. de Brock

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  1. LogicBlox, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Terry Halpin

  2. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU,, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  3. University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  4. Capgemini and Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Erik Proper

  5. University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  6. University of Haifa, Carmel Mountain, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

  7. University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Roland Ukor

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de Brock, E.O. (2009). Transactions in ORM. In: Halpin, T., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01862-6_24

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