A three-layered XML View Model: A Practical Approach

Rajagopalapillai, R; Chang, E; Dillon, TS; Feng, L

A three-layered XML View Model: A Practical Approach

Rajagopalapillai, R Chang, E Dillon, TS Feng, L

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Citation:: Conceptual Modeling - ER 2005 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of Conceptual Modeling, 2005, pp. 79 - 95
Issue Date:: 2005-01

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dc.contributor.author	Rajagopalapillai, R	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Chang, E	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dillon, TS	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Feng, L	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Delcambre, L	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Kop, C	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Mayr, HC	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Mylopoulos, J	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Pastor, O	en_US
dc.date	2005-10-24	en_US
dc.date.issued	2005-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Conceptual Modeling - ER 2005 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of Conceptual Modeling, 2005, pp. 79 - 95	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1841
dc.description.abstract	Since the early software models, abstraction and conceptual semantics have proven their importance in software engineering methodologies. For example, Object-Oriented conceptual modeling offers the power in describing and modeling real-world data semantics and their inter-relationships in a form that is precise and comprehensible to users. Conversely, XML is becoming the dominant standard for storing, describing and interchanging data among various Enterprises Information Systems and databases. With the increased reliance on such self-describing, schema-based, semi-structured data language/(s), there exists a requirement to model, design, and manipulate XML data and associated semantics at a higher level of abstraction than at the instance level. But, existing Object-Oriented conceptual modeling languages provide insufficient modeling constructs for utilizing XML schema like data descriptions and constraints, and most semi-structured schema languages lack the ability to provide higher levels of abstraction (such as conceptual models) that are easily understood by humans. To this end, it is interesting to investigate conceptual and schema formalisms as a means of providing higher level semantics in the context of XML-related data engineering. In this paper, we use XML view as a case in point and present a three-layered view model with illustrated examples taken from a real-world application domain. We focus on conceptual and schema view definitions, view constraints, and the conceptual query operators.	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer	en_US
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP0219627
dc.relation.ispartof	Conceptual Modeling - ER 2005 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference of Conceptual Modeling	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	International Conference on Conceptual Modelling	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/11568322_6	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	en_US
dc.title	A three-layered XML View Model: A Practical Approach	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
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utslib.location.activity	Klagenflurt, Austria	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Klagenflurt, Austria	en_US
dc.location.activity	Perth, Australia
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Software
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Abstract:

Since the early software models, abstraction and conceptual semantics have proven their importance in software engineering methodologies. For example, Object-Oriented conceptual modeling offers the power in describing and modeling real-world data semantics and their inter-relationships in a form that is precise and comprehensible to users. Conversely, XML is becoming the dominant standard for storing, describing and interchanging data among various Enterprises Information Systems and databases. With the increased reliance on such self-describing, schema-based, semi-structured data language/(s), there exists a requirement to model, design, and manipulate XML data and associated semantics at a higher level of abstraction than at the instance level. But, existing Object-Oriented conceptual modeling languages provide insufficient modeling constructs for utilizing XML schema like data descriptions and constraints, and most semi-structured schema languages lack the ability to provide higher levels of abstraction (such as conceptual models) that are easily understood by humans. To this end, it is interesting to investigate conceptual and schema formalisms as a means of providing higher level semantics in the context of XML-related data engineering. In this paper, we use XML view as a case in point and present a three-layered view model with illustrated examples taken from a real-world application domain. We focus on conceptual and schema view definitions, view constraints, and the conceptual query operators.

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