Presentation by C Maria Keet (
keet@inf.unibz.it): KRDB Research Centre, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Abstract: Representing parthood relations in ORM has received little attention, despite its added-value of the semantics at the conceptual level. We introduce a high-level taxonomy of types of meronymic and mereological relations, use it to construct a decision procedure to determine which type of part-whole role is applicable, and incrementally add mandatory and uniqueness constraints. This enables the conceptual modeller to develop models that are closer to the real-world subject domain semantics, hence improve quality of the software.
Paper published in: OTM Workshops 2006, LNCS 4278, pp. 118-11127 - Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.