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Conceptual Data Modeling: Entity-Relationship Models as Thinging Machines

  • Al-Fedaghi, Sabah
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.247-260
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    • 2021
  • Data modeling is a process of developing a model to design and develop a data system that supports an organization's various business processes. A conceptual data model represents a technology-independent specification of structure of data to be stored within a database. The model aims to provide richer expressiveness and incorporate a set of semantics to (a) support the design, control, and integrity parts of the data stored in data management structures and (b) coordinate the viewing of connections and ideas on a database. The described structure of the data is often represented in an entity–relationship (ER) model, which was one of the first data-modeling techniques and is likely to continue to be a popular way of characterizing entity classes, attributes, and relationships. This paper attempts to examine the basic ER modeling notions in order to analyze the concepts to which they refer as well as ways to represent them. In such a mission, we apply a new modeling methodology (thinging machine; TM) to ER in terms of its fundamental building constructs, representation entities, relationships, and attributes. The goal of this venture is to further the understanding of data models and enrich their semantics. Three specific contributions to modeling in this context are incorporated: (a) using the TM model's five generic actions to inject processing in the ER structure; (b) relating the single ontological element of TM modeling (i.e., a thing/machine or thimac) to ER entities and relationships; and (c) proposing a high-level integrated, extended ER model that includes structural and time-oriented notions (e.g., events or behavior).

Simulation of Multiversion Real-time Transactions in Database Systems for Factory Automation (공장 자동화를 위한 데이터베이스 시스템에서의 다중 버전 실시간 트랜잭션의 시뮬레이션)

  • 유인관
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.125-134
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    • 1994
  • In real-time database systems, transactions's commitment done before the given deadlines is more important than just getting the maximum throughput. Transactions missing the given deadlines are no longer meaningful in real-time applications. Therefore, there is a need for new transaction processing models to meet the given deadlines in real-time database applications, because moat conventional transaction models are not designed to meet deadlines. In this paper we propose a new transaction models which uses multiple versions of a data item. The model uses read-from graphs and dynamic reorder of transactions to meet deadlines. A read-from graph contains the past read semantics of read operations and support the model to decide which database operation to be taken. Then, we show simulation results comparing the proposed model with other transaction models such as two phase locking model and the optimistic concurrency control model.

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Design of Database Integration System and Query System based on Global View Generation Tool (전역 스키마 생성 도구를 이용한 데이터베이스 통합 및 질의 시스템)

  • Park, U-Chang
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.65-74
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    • 2007
  • Database integration is a common and growing challenge with the proliferation of database systems, data warehouses, data marts, and other OLAP systems in organizations. Although there are many methods of sharing data between databases, true interoperability of database integration system that improves in the database federation architecture by allowing domain administrators to simply and efficiently capture database semantics. The semantic information is combined using a tool for producing a global view. Building the global view is the bottleneck in integration because there are few tools that support its construction, and these tools often require sophisticated knowledge and experience to operate properly. The technique and tool presented is simple and powerful enough to be used by all database administrators, yet expressive enough to support the majority of integration queries.

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Event Semantic Photo Retrieval Management System based on MPEG-7 (MPEG-7 기반의 이벤트 의미 포토 검색 관리 시스템)

  • Ahn, Byeong-Tae;Chung, Bhum-Suk;Lee, Chong-Ha
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2007
  • Semantic photo retrieval has been an important role in reducing the semantic gap between the simple visual features and the abundant semantics delivered by a photo. Effective photo retrieval using semantics is one of the major challenges in photo retrieval. And we propose a new event semantic photo retrieval method by using photo annotation user interface. In this paper, A photo album management system that facilitates photo management and semantic retrieval, which fully relies on the MPEG-7 standard as an information base and a native XML database, has been designed and implemented.

A Method of Applying Ontology for Product Information Search (제품 정보의 검색에 온톨로지 활용 방법)

  • 최무라;유상봉
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2001
  • As the networks (i.e., intranet and internet) proliferate all over the world, it is inevitable to move some (or all) of the enterprise activities into virtual spaces. Differently from business data, product data have complex semantics and thus are not properly exchanged among different application programs. Even though some neutral formats of product data have been developed by standard organizations, exchanging them among various application programs still needs the comprehensive understanding of the complex semantics. Recently, it is widely recognized that capturing more knowledge is the next step to overcome the current difficulties on sharing product data. In this paper, we utilize the ontology concept in order to facilitate information search far product data in the internet environment. A prototype of search system implemented using the ontology for automobile product data is presented.

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A study on Metadata Modeling using Structure Information of Video Document (비디오 문서의 구조 정보를 이용한 메타데이터 모델링에 관한 연구)

  • 권재길
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.10-18
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    • 1998
  • Video information is an important component of multimedia system such as Digital Library. World-Wide Web(WWW) and Video-On-Demand(VOD) service system. It can support various types of information because of including audio-visual, spatial-temporal and semantics information. In addition, it requires the ability of retrieving the specific scene of video instead of entire retrieval of video document. Therefore, so as to support a variety of retrieval, this paper models metadata using video document structure information that consists of hierarchical structure, and designs database schema that can manipulate video document.

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A Semantics-based Video Retrieval System using Annotation and Feature (주석 및 특징을 이용한 의미기반 비디오 검색 시스템)

  • 이종희
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2004
  • In order to process video data effectively, it is required that the content information of video data is loaded in database and semantic-based retrieval method can be available for various query of users. Currently existent contents-based video retrieval systems search by single method such as annotation-based or feature-based retrieval, and show low search efficiency md requires many efforts of system administrator or annotator because of imperfect automatic processing. In this paper, we propose semantics-based video retrieval system which support semantic retrieval of various users by feature-based retrieval and annotation-based retrieval of massive video data. By user's fundamental query and selection of image for key frame that extracted from query, the agent gives the detail shape for annotation of extracted key frame. Also, key frame selected by user become query image and searches the most similar key frame through feature based retrieval method and optimized comparison area extracting that propose. Therefore, we propose the system that can heighten retrieval efficiency of video data through semantics-based retrieval.

PDM/ODB: Mapping XML to ODMG-Compliant Object-Oriented Database (PDM/ODB: XML 데이타의 ODMG 표준 객체지향 데이타베이스로의 사상)

  • Ko, Bong-Su;Park, Sang-Won;Min, Kyung-Sub;Kim, Hyoung-Joo
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.383-391
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    • 2001
  • The value of XML as electronic documents is increasing nowadays. The XML document has properties of semistructured data. It can be modeled as object-oriented model which can be easily adapted by object-oriented database. For storing XML documents to conventional database system, extracting schema information from the DTD of a XML document has been studied for several years. In this paper we store XML documents into object-oriented database, which preserve the semantics of the documents. We can store and query by OQL and make applications by C++ and make applications by C++ binding which is the access method of object-oriented database. Therefore, existing database applications can be used without modification.

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Relational Database Structure for Preserving Multi-role Topics in Topic Map (토픽맵의 다중역할 토픽 보존을 위한 관계형 데이터베이스 구조)

  • Jung, Yoonsoo;Y., Choon;Kim, Namgyu
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.327-349
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    • 2009
  • Traditional keyword-based searching methods suffer from low accuracy and high complexity due to the rapid growth in the amount of information. Accordingly, many researchers attempt to implement a so-called semantic search which is based on the semantics of the user's query. Semantic information can be described using a semantic modeling language, such as Topic Map. In this paper, we propose a new method to map a topic map to a traditional Relational Database (RDB) without any information loss. Although there have been a few attempts to map topic maps to RDB, they have paid scant attention to handling multi-role topics. In this paper, we propose a new storage structure to map multi-role topics to traditional RDB. The proposed structure consists of a mapping table, role tables, and content tables. Additionally, we devise a query translator to convert a user's query to one appropriate to the proposed structure.

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Update Semantic Preserving Object-Oriented View (갱신 의미 보존 객체-지향 뷰)

  • 나영국
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.8D no.1
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    • pp.32-43
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    • 2001
  • Due to the limitation of data modeling power and the view update ambiguity, relational view is limitedly used for engineering applications. On the contrary, object-oriented database view would playa vital role in defining custom interface for engineering applications because the above two limitations of the relational view are overcome by the object-oriented view. Above all, engineering application data interface should fully support updates. More specifically, updates against the data interface needs to be unambiguously defined and its semantic behavior should be equal to base schema updates'. For this purpose, we define the notion of update semantic preserving which means that view updates displays the same semantics as base schema. Besides, in order to show the feasibility of this characteristics, specific and concrete algorithms for update preserving updates are presented for a CAD specialized object-oriented database view - MultiView. This paper finds that in order that virtual classes coudld form a schema with 'isa' relationships rather than just a group of classes, the update semantics on the virtual classes should be defined such that the implied meaning of 'isa' relationships between classes are not to be violated. Besides, as its sufficiency conditions, we derived the update semantics and schema constituable conditions of the virtual classes that make view schemas look like base schemas. To my best knowledge, this is the first research that presents the sufficiency conditions by which we could defined object-oriented views as integrated schemas rather than as separate classes.

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