Abstract:
The Object-Oriented (OO) conceptual models have
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 fast emerging as the dominant standard for storing,
describing and interchanging data among various
Enterprises Information Systems (EIS) and databases.
With software engineering placing added emphasis on
MDA solutions and modeling approaches, it is
important to investigate data models for EIS that are
abstract enough to be utilized under the MDA
paradigm, yet is adoptable in the current data
engineering practice. In this paper, we demonstrate a
set of language independent conceptual operators for
constructing abstract views for XML. The proposed
view model has conceptual and logical extensions for
supporting abstract views definitions at the conceptual
level.
