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The role of domain ontologies in database design: An ontology management and conceptual modeling environment (2006)
| Venue: | ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS |
| Citations: | 21 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Sugumaran06therole,
author = {Vijayan Sugumaran and Veda C. Storey},
title = {The role of domain ontologies in database design: An ontology management and conceptual modeling environment},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS},
year = {2006},
volume = {31},
pages = {1064--1094}
}
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Abstract
Database design is difficult because it involves a database designer understanding an application and translating the design requirements into a conceptual model. However, the designer may have little or no knowledge about the application or task for which the database is being designed. This research presents a methodology for supporting database design creation and evaluation that makes use of domain-specific knowledge about an application stored in the form of domain ontologies. The methodology is implemented in a prototype system, the Ontology Management and Database Design Environment. Initial testing of the prototype illustrates that the incorporation and use of ontologies is effective in creating entity-relationship models.
