Abstract:
For complex industrial informatics applications,
there exists a requirement to model and design views at a
higher level of abstraction. Since the classical view definitions
are only available at the data, query or instance level, modelling and maintaining views for such complex systems is an
impossible task. With the introduction of XML [27] and XML
Schema [18] and their rapid adaptation by the commercial and
industrial systems increased the complexity further for view
design and specification. In this paper we present a methodology
for modelling and transforming conceptual views [l0, 4]
into XML views [l0] using a modified semantic network called
XML Semantic Net (XSemantic Net). Here we extend the work
[5] with a rich set of conceptual operators to enable systematic
construction of conceptual views. First the semantic modelling
of conceptual view is enabled by using XSemantic nets and its
conceptual operators. Then we enable systematic mapping of
conceptual views into XML views (logical level) by providing a
set of transformation rules [5] between XSemantic nets and
XML (view) Schema.
