• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.157-163
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• 2015

XML has become one of the most influential standard language for representing and exchanging data on internet. However, XML itself has a ability to represent a logical structure for storing and managing data, it is inadequate to use as a conceptual modeling tool because of its complexity for representing the document structures. In this paper, we propose the graphical form of conceptual modeling techniques for representing the structure of the XML schema documents using an extended entity relationship diagram. For this, extended entity relationship model is presented for representing the XML schema structure, transformation rules are presented for transforming extended entity relationship model into XML schema document to show the completeness of the proposed model.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.197-202
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• 2019

XML has been established as a de facto standard for representing and exchanging documents, and has been widely used as a logical data model. Using XML as a logical database model, it requires a conceptual model for the semantics that XML has. However, the existing conceptual models, such as Entity Relationship models and UML, have been extended their concepts to express the specific characteristics of XML, but so far, there are no standard models. This paper compares the characteristics of the typical model of conceptual model of XML by Extended Entity Relationship model from the perspective of database field. For this, we propose the requirements that must be met for XML, and on the basis of these requirements, the approaches of each model are compared.

• 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).

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.111-119
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• 2005

Electronic catalog contains ich semantics associated with products, and serves as a challenging practical domain for ontology application. Ontology is concerned with the nature and relations of being. It can play a crucial role in e-commerce as a formalization of e-Catalogs. Description Logics provide a theoretical core for most of the current ontology languages. In this paper, we present an ontological model of e-Catalogs in DL. We take an Extended Entity Relationship approach for conceptual modeling method, and present the fundamental set of modeling constructs and corresponding description language representation for each construct. Additional semantic knowledge can be represented directly in DL. Our modeling language stands within SHIQ(d) which is known reasonably practical with regard to its expressiveness and complexity. We illustrate sample scenarios to show how our approach may be utilized in modeling e-Catalogs, and also implement the scenarios through a DL inference tool to see the practical feasibility.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.243-258
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• 2004

Building a domain-suited ontology, as a means to implement the Semantic Web, is widely believed to offer users the benefit of exploiting the semantic knowledge constrained in the application. Electronic Catalog, shortly e-Catalog, manages the information about the goods or conditions play an important role in e-commerce domain. Consequently, semantically enriched yet precise information by the ontology may elaborate the business transactions. In this paper, we analyze the semantic relationships embodied within the catalog domain, as the first step towards the ontological modeling of e-catalog. Exploring ontology should leverage not only the representation of semantic knowledge but also provide the inferencing capability for the model. We employ the EER(extended Entity Relationships) for the basic model. Each modeling construct can be directly translated by DL(Description Logics). Semantic constraints that can be hardly represented in EER are directly modeled in DL.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.103-120
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• 1992

Object-Oriented method is a rather difficult one, theories are different as many as they are, and can hardly be found well-applied examples of OOD. So, this paper deal with the history, the needs, the benefits, basic concept of object-oriented design methods, especially the designing procedure which covers from analyzing the requirements, designing the EER(extended entity relationship) model, transforming this model into relational schema, to OODB schema step. Major contributions can be identified; First, the proposed method will ensure that it improve the productivity, increase the software quality, and elevate the maintainability. Second, it provide the framework of how object-oriented schema is constructed for OODB design. Third, suggested realistic case study will enhance the better understanding of how the current business process will be applied to the OODB design step.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.355-375
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• 2022

This study is to grasp LRM's feature and applications plan to reflect LRM to cataloging related standards and individual system through comparing and analyzing LRM with the FR model in terms of entities, attributes, and relationships. The application plan is suggested as follows. First, the entity can be extended by defining sub-entities of each entity in the standards and the individual system in order to reflect LRM, even though entities such as families, groups, identifiers, authorized access points, concepts, objects, events, agency and rules have been deleted in LRM. Second, the attribute should be subdivided in the standards and the individual system in order to apply LRM, though many attributes have been changed to relationships for linked data and decreased in LRM. In particular, more specific and detailed property names in the standards and the individual system should be clearly presented, and the vocabulary encoding scheme corresponding to each property should be also developed, since properties with similar functions or repetition in various entities, and material specific properties are generalized and integrated into comprehensive property names. Third, the relationship should be extended through newly declaring the refinement or subtype of the relationship and considering a multi-level relationship, since the relationship itself is general and abstract under increasing the number of relationships in comparing to the property. This study will be practically utilized in cataloging related standards and individual system for applying LRM.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.43-46
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• 2002

B2B 전자상거래와 같이 XML을 이용한 정보교환이 확산되고 있으며 이에 따라 상호 교환되는 정보에 대하여 체계적이며 안정적인 정장관리가 요구되고 있다. 이를 위해 XML 응용과 데이터베이스 연계를 위한 다양한 연구가 관계형 데이터베이스를 중심으로 수행되었다. 본 논문에서는 EER 스키마로부터 XML 문서로 자동생성 되는 것을 단순화하기 위하여 알고리즘을 기술하고 관계형 데이터베이스 스키마로 변환을 시도했다. 특히 개념적 데이터 모델에 의해서 기술된 데이터 구조를 DTD로(Document Type Definition) 변환하는 방법을 나타낸다. 이 변환의 중요한 목적은 개념 스키마로부터 구조적인 정보를 가능한 한 많이 보존하는 것이다. 이것은 XML 파서가 가능한 한 일부분의 상태를 확인하고 서로 다른 데이터베이스사이의 데이터교환을 단순화한다. 특히 데이터베이스 스키마에서 XML 문서로 데이터를 가져오는 것이다. 개념 스키마의 알고리즘을 기준으로 하는 것은 매우 일반적이고 개념적 데이터 베이스의 데이터뿐만 아니라 객체-관계 데이터베이스의 데이터에 대해서도 알고리즘이 모델링될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.78-80
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• 2012

개체 관계(ER) 모델과 확장 개체 관계(EER) 모델은 개념적 데이터베이스 설계분야에서 가장 많이 사용되는 모델이다. 확장 개체 관계 모델은 여전히 객체지향 데이터베이스를 처리하는데 강력하나 최신 객체관계 데이터베이스와 UML과 같은 새로운 데이터베이스 모델링을 처리하기에는 부족함이 많다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 객체 관계 데이터베이스를 지원하기 위한 확장 개체 관계 기반의 변환 방법을 제안한다. 변환 규칙은 트리플 그래프 문법을 사용하여 정의하고 MOFRON TGG 에디터를 이용하여 표현한다. 트리플 그래프 문법 규칙에 따라 본 제안 방법은 자동 ORDB 개발 프레임워크에 적용할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2005

공학적 기반의 응용 프로그램에서는 복합관계(complex relationship) 및 복합객체(complex object)의 개념이 요구되는데, 이러한 개념들은 비즈니스 응용에 적합한 관계형 데이터베이스로 다루기에는 저장과 검색 시 많은 문제점을 야기한다. 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위해서 객체 관계형 데이터베이스 시스템이 출현하게 되었다. 한편, 고전적인 데이터베이스 설계 기법은 개체 관계형 모델(Entity Relationship Model)과 같은 개념적 모델을 사용하며 데이터 중심의 구조적 관점(structural aspect)만을 고려하는 반면, UML(Unified Modeling Language)같은 객체지향형 설계 도구를 사용하여 데이터베이스를 설계할 경우 구조적 관점 및 행위적 관점(behavioral aspect)을 모두 포함한다. UML은 확장 가능한 언어로서, 특정 응용프로그램에 대한 새로운 스테레오타입(stereotype)의 사용이 가능하다. 데이터베이스 설계를 위한 확장된 UML의 스테레오타입이 제안되었지만, 대부분 관계형 데이터베이스에 초점이 맞추어져 있다. 본 논문에서는 객체 관계형 데이터베이스 설계를 위한 확장된 UML 스테레오타입을 기술하며, 복합관계 및 복합객체를 지원하기 위해 Aggregation, Composition, Association의 개념을 재정의한 설계기법을 제안하고, 제안한 설계기법을 지원하는 설계 도구(ORDesigner)의 구현에 대해서 기술한다.