A Method for Filtering Large Conceptual Schemas

• Published in: Conceptual Modeling – ER 2010 pp. 247 - 260
• Main Authors: Villegas, Antonio, Olivé, Antoni
• Format: Book Chapter Publication
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Enginyeria del software; Entity Types; Filtering; Filters and filtration; Importance; Informàtica; Large Schemas; Software engineering; Theoretical computer science; Àrees temàtiques de la UPC

We focus on the problem of filtering a fragment of the knowledge contained in a large conceptual schema. The problem appears in many information systems development activities in which people need to operate with a piece of the knowledge contained in that schema. We propose a new method in which a u...