Engineering XML Solutions Using Views

Abstract

In industrial informatics, engineering data intensive Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) is a challenging task without abstraction and partitioning. Further, the introduction of semi-structured data (namely XML) and its rapid adaptation by the commercial and industrial systems increased the complexity for data engineering. Conversely, the introduction of OMG's MDA presents an interesting paradigm for EIS and system modeling, where a system is designed at a higher level of abstraction. This presents an interesting problem to investigate data engineering XML solutions under the MDA initiatives, where, models and framework requires higher level of abstraction. In this paper we investigate a view model that can provide layered design methodology for modeling data intensive XML solutions for EIS paradigm, with sufficient level of abstraction.

A Three-Layered XML View Model: A Practical Approach

“…To help illustrate our concepts, we conduct a real-world case study in a fictitious global logistic company called LWC & e-Solutions Inc., e-Sol in short. Also, our three-layered view model has been utilized in real-world, data intensive application scenarios [36,39] such as; (i) design of XML document warehouses and distributed FACT repositories, (ii) design of websites and web portals, (iii) design of User Access Control (UAC) and UAC middleware, and (4) design of (Ontology) views for Semantic Web.…”