Journal of Database Management, Volume 15

Volume 15, Number 1, January-March 2004

Keng Siau: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation Methodologies - Editorial Preface.
Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Duncan Dubugras A. Ruiz: A Systematic Approach to Flexible Specification, Composition, and Restructuring of Workflow Activities. 1-40
Juan Trujillo, Sergio Luján-Mora, Il-Yeol Song: Applying UML and XML for designing and interchanging information for data warehouses and OLAP applications. 41-72
Keng Siau: Informational and Computational Equivalence in Comparing Information Modeling Methods. 73-86
Yang W. Lee, Leo Pipino, Diane M. Strong, Richard Y. Wang: Process-Embedded Data Integrity. 87-103

Peter Green, Michael Rosemann: Ontological Analysis, Evaluation and Engineering of Business Systems Analysis Methods - Editorial Preface.
Yair Wand, Ron Weber: Reflection: Ontology in Information Systems - Foreword.
Adolfo Lozano Tello, Asunción Gómez-Pérez: ONTOMETRIC: A Method to Choose the Appropriate Ontology. 1-18
Simon K. Milton, Edmund Kazmierczak: An Ontology of Data Modeling Languages: A Study Using a Common-Sense Realistic Ontology. 19-38
Andreas L. Opdahl, Brian Henderson-Sellers: A Template for Defining Enterprise Modeling Constructs. 39-73
Aymeric Dussart, Benoit Aubert, Michel Patry: An Evaluation of Inter-Organizational Workflow Modeling Formalisms. 74-104
Peter Green, Michael Rosemann: Applying Ontologies to Business and Systems Modeling Techniques and Perspectives: Lessons Learned. 105-117

Keng Siau: Relationship Construct in Modeling Information Systems: Identifying Relationship Based on Relation Element Theory - Editorial Preface.
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Kendall Giles: An Exploration of a Set of Entropy-Based Hybrid Splitting Methods for Decision Tree Induction. 1-17
Joseph Fong, Hing Kwok Wong: XTOPO: An XML-Based Topology for Information Highway on the Internet. 18-44
Ratko Orlandic, Byunggu Yu: Scalable QSF-Trees: Retrieving Regional Objects in High-Dimensional Spaces. 45-59
Seok Il Song, Jae Soo Yoo: An Efficient Concurrency Control Algorithm for High-Dimensional Index Structures. 60-72
Aristides Triantafillakis, Panagiotis Kanellis, Drakoulis Martakos: Data Warehouse Interoperability for the Extended Enterprise. 73-84

Keng Siau: Editorial Preface.
Yu Jiao, Ali R. Hurson: Application of Mobile Agents in Mobile Data Access Systems: A Prototype. 1-24
Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Frédéric Migeon, Franck Morvan: Mobile Agent Based Self-Adaptive Join for Wide-Area Distributed Query Processing. 25-44
Paul L. Bowen, Fiona H. Rohde, Jay Basford: Ex Ante Evaluations of Alternate Data Structures for End User Queries: Theory and Experimental Test. 45-70
Te-Wei Wang, Kenneth E. Murphy: Semantic Heterogeneity in Multidatabase Systems: A Review and a Proposed Meta-Data Structure. 71-87
Huimin Zhou, Sudha Ram: Clustering Schema Elements for Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources. 88-106