Building reusable components in the public administration domain

ABSTRACT

The paper proposes methods and tools for building reusable components from families of Information System conceptual schemas, based on the identification of similar components in different schemas, and on their engineering into normalized descriptions. Clustering and abstraction techniques to help identifying similar components, and techniques to build corresponding reusable components are described in the paper.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.1 Logical Design
          Subjects: Data models

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.m Miscellaneous
          Subjects: Reusable software**

General Terms:
Theory