Declarative taxonomic constraint enforcement in conceptual schemas

We propose to declaratively specify policies for the enforcement of integrity constraints directly in the structural conceptual schema. The policies we propose depend on the kind of taxonomic constraint to be enforced (disjointness, covering or specialization) and on the particular event that may ca...

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Autores: Costal Costa, Dolors|||0000-0002-7340-0414, Gómez Seoane, Cristina|||0000-0002-3872-0439, Teniente López, Ernest|||0000-0001-8890-9638
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/84118
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/84118
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Taxonomic integrity constraints
Conceptual schema
Conceptual modelling
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Sumario:We propose to declaratively specify policies for the enforcement of integrity constraints directly in the structural conceptual schema. The policies we propose depend on the kind of taxonomic constraint to be enforced (disjointness, covering or specialization) and on the particular event that may cause the constraint violation. We also provide a formal definition of these policies and of the repair actions that must be taken into account to guarantee the enforcement of the corresponding constraint. This formalization serves as a basis for the automatic repair of events to preserve consistency and for ensuring that the repair process terminates.