PERTH, AUSTRALIA - July 5, 2002 -- Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd (IES) today released Issue No. 19 of "The Enterprise Newsletter" (TEN), published...
Clive Finkelstein
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Jul 6, 2002 3:20 pm
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... ... Here's a big one, especially coming from a firm _supposedly_ committed to security. Well, actually, I guess it was written and released before the Big ...
Darryl L. Rowe
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Jul 6, 2002 6:21 pm
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You are welcome and I hope you are feeling better now. We appreciate all comments about the product - the more made - the more likely we can get something...
It is also on my course website, along with usage notes written by both Terry Halpin and Myself. http://ids.csom.umn.edu/faculty/everest/idsx431 -gord.e. ...
geverest@...
Jul 12, 2002 10:40 pm
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Thanks for the reply, Gordon. Actually, I have the latest version if Visiomodeler, and had noted that in an earlier post here which was apparently rejected for...
ORM is a general data modeling scheme which can be used in any domain of interest, including legal text modeling. I presume you are interested in modeling the...
geverest@...
Jul 20, 2002 11:04 pm
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Luk, In the past we used to have a class problem that was modeling the driving laws in another country. By doing the modeling we found a flaw in the law such...
Hello Professor Everest, Luk, I used ORM to model the information requirements for a criminal records system to be implemented in a county law enforcement...
Very interesting. I guess we need to know more about what Luk is trying to do. I remember BASIS+ very well. It was originally developed by the Battelle ...
geverest@...
Jul 22, 2002 4:16 pm
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Well Brain, you have brought back many memories and people out of hiding. Most of us including you were using BASIS+ before any other current vendor was on the...
Hi, I've encountered several times a link to ORM metamodel project at InConcept website. http://www.inconcept.com/JCM/metamodel.html it does return nothing :( ...
Hello All, I had been intending that my next post would be to solict some help in resolving some temporal issues with a data model I'm building, but Clive's...
Hi ORM Guru's hope you can help with this design problem. Item has Size. Item has Quantity. Quantity has SizeRange. If Quantity is more than 1 than it also has...
Sorry but, Active Query is currently on the shelf. It does not work with newer versions, nor do we know when AQ will be revisited. A hunch here is the issues...
Unfortunately, Active Query is currently not available. It was defined to work with InfoModeler files, so would need some enhancements to work with VEA models....
Terry Halpin
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Jul 22, 2002 7:06 pm
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Raises some interesting questions. First, easy solution: define a subtype under QUANTITY, for all those over 1, Then make QTY1 must have SIZE RANGE (NOT: QTY...
geverest@...
Jul 23, 2002 2:58 am
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Hi John, If I was doing the interviewing on this modeling effort, I would explore that object that you call "SizeRange" a bit further. Without having a full ...
Hello, I am an MSc student at University College London, and as part of a project I am currently working on, I am keen find out what users of the UML for OO ...
Clare Gryce
ucabacg@...
Aug 1, 2002 2:23 pm
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Hi, I have a seemingly simple problem to model but I can't get the ORM specified in a way so that Visio would actually implement the ER the way I expect it to....
Wolfgang Baeck
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Aug 3, 2002 9:43 pm
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Wolfgang, This should work, but here are some things to look at: 1) Is the internal uniqueness constraint on the Fact Rate is for Item on the Rate role (rate...
Hi Wolfgang, ... You want to use and external uniqueness constraint in order to "co-reference" the identification scheme of Rate. Enter the following facts in...
Scot A. Becker
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Aug 5, 2002 3:36 pm
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Wolfgang: From an ER side of the picture you lack a specfic foreign key into RATE from ITEM. ALL er diagram tools will give you the same problem. I.E. there...
... From: Don [mailto:dkretz@...] Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 12:02 AM To: jcm-owner@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: ItemRate Model This usually works...
trishs
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Aug 5, 2002 3:42 pm
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Interesting how Wolfgang's problems stem from an incomplete specification of the semantics of the situation. Those responding to his posting must make...
geverest@...
Aug 5, 2002 4:52 pm
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I agree with everything that has been said on this subject, yet my problem isn't table think but familiarity with ORM in some intricate issues. The experienced...
Wolfgang Baeck
wbaeck@...
Aug 5, 2002 6:41 pm
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Don, Thank you for your very detailed response. Perhaps you have seen on my earlier post that I found the solution but I'm dissatisfied with the approach I...
Wolfgang Baeck
wbaeck@...
Aug 5, 2002 7:57 pm
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Scot, I liked your response very much since it didn't necessitate the creation of an objectified fact which in my opinion is created too often because the ...
Wolfgang Baeck
wbaeck@...
Aug 5, 2002 7:57 pm
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Hi Wolfgang, This error message is correct; I had assumed the UC on the Item has Rate fact was only spanning the Rate role. Sorry for the confusion. It looks ...