A general theory for evolving application models

Author

Proper, H.A. ; van der Weide, T.P.

Author_Institution

Cooperatve Inf. Syst. Res. Centre, Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld., Australia

Volume

7

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

12/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

984

Lastpage

996

Abstract

Provides a general theory for evolving information systems. This theory makes a distinction between the underlying information structure at the conceptual level, its evolution on the one hand, and the description and semantics of operations on the information structure and its population on the other hand. The main issues within this theory are object typing, type relatedness and identification of objects. In terms of these concepts, we propose some axioms on the well-formedness of evolution. In this general theory, the underlying data model is a parameter, making the theory applicable for a wide range of modelling techniques, including object-role modelling and object-oriented techniques

Keywords

abstract data types; data structures; entity-relationship modelling; object-oriented methods; type theory; application model evolution; conceptual level; data model; entity-relationship model; evolving information systems; information structure evolution; object identification; object typing; object-oriented techniques; object-role modelling; operational semantics; predicator set model; schema evolution; temporal infermation systems; type relatedness; well-formedness; Australia; Books; Data conversion; Data models; Databases; Erbium; History; Information systems; Information technology; Object oriented modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-4347

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/69.476503

Filename

476503