Formal: A Forms-Oriented, Visual-Directed Application Development System

“…On the other side, ER [9], object-oriented [9]- [11], standard/vendor-specific relational [12] or object-relational [13] MMs occur on the target side. There are various research works about the use of forms in different contexts: Tsichritzis [14] introduces the concepts of form type, Shu [15] proposed using forms to specify system requirements, in [16] is presented a usage of business forms as input data for the process of database schema design. A form-based approach for reverse engineering of relational databases is proposed in [17].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Model-to-Model Transformation of a Generic Relational Database Schema into a Form Type Data Model

Ristić¹,

Kordić²,

Čeliković³

et al. 2016

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-An important phase of a data-oriented software system reengineering is a database reengineering process and, in particular, its subprocess -a database reverse engineering process. In this paper we present one of the model-to-model transformations from a chain of transformations aimed at transformation of a generic relational database schema into a form type data model. The transformation is a step of the data structure conceptualization phase of a model-driven database reverse engineering process that is implemented in IIS*Studio development environment.

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“…In forms languages (e.g., spreadsheet languages [l, 23, 37, 461, BDL [22], SBA [15], FORMANAGER [47], and FORMAL [42]) users specify computations in several distinctly different ways. These languages require users to know something about the underlying data domains, the applicable operations, and the syntax for specifying computations.…”

Section: Computations On Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

NFQL: the natural forms query language

Embley

1989

ACM Trans. Database Syst.

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A means by which ordinary forms can be exploited to provide a basis for nonprocedural specification of information processing is discussed. The Natural Forms Query Language (NFQL) is defined. In NFQL data retrieval requests and computation specifications are formulated by sketching ordinary forms to show what data are desired and update operations are specified by altering data on filled-in forms. The meaning of a form depends on a store of knowledge that includes extended abstract data types for defining elementary data items, a database scheme defined by an entity-relationship model, and a conceptual model of an ordinary form. Based on this store of knowledge, several issues are addressed and resolved in the context of NFQL. These issues include automatic generation of query expressions from weak specifications, the view update problem, power and completeness, and a heuristic approach to resolving computational relationships. A brief status report of an implementation of NFQL is also given.

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Formal: A Forms-Oriented, Visual-Directed Application Development System

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A Model-to-Model Transformation of a Generic Relational Database Schema into a Form Type Data Model

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