Research in database engineering at the University of Namur

The Laboratory of Database Applications Engineering (LIBD) is devoted to the development of models, techniques, methods and tools to support all the engineering activities related to databases and their applications. It also develops material and activities to transfer database knowledge towards industry. This report describes the main activities of the laboratory during the last ten years. It first discusses general resources and processes that form the baselines for the other research activities. The latter will be classified into reverse engineering, interoperability, advanced processes and CASE technology.

[1]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  Contribution to a theory of database reverse engineering , 1993, [1993] Proceedings Working Conference on Reverse Engineering.

[2]  Philippe Thiran,et al.  Wrapper development for legacy data reuse , 2001, Proceedings Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering.

[3]  Vincent Englebert,et al.  Program Understanding in Databases Reverse Engineering , 1998, DEXA.

[4]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  Strategy for Database Application Evolution: The DB-MAIN Approach , 2003, ER.

[5]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  Database Engineering Process Modelling , 1997 .

[6]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  Specification Preservation in Schema Transformations - Application to Semantics and Statistics , 1996, Data Knowl. Eng..

[7]  Kalle Lyytinen,et al.  Special issue on meta-modelling and methodology engineering , 1999 .

[8]  Vincent Englebert,et al.  Database reverse engineering: From requirements to CARE tools , 2004, Automated Software Engineering.

[9]  Vincent Englebert,et al.  DB-MAIN: A Next Generation Meta-CASE , 1999, Inf. Syst..

[10]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  CASE Tool Support for Temporal Database Design , 2001, ER.

[11]  Jean-Luc Hainaut.  Entity-Relationship Models: Formal Specification and Comparision , 1990, ER.

[12]  Philippe Thiran,et al.  Approche transformationnelle de la réingénierie des données , 2001, Ingénierie des Systèmes d Inf..

[13]  Philippe Thiran,et al.  Methodology and Case Tools for the Development of Federated Databases , 1999, Int. J. Cooperative Inf. Syst..

[14]  Jean Henrard.  Program Understanding Techniques in Database Reverse Engineering , 2003 .

[15]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  A Generic Entity-Relationship Model , 1989, ISCO.

[16]  Jean-Luc Hainaut,et al.  Database Reverse Engineering: Models, Techniques, and Strategies , 1991, ER.

[17]  Axel C. Schwickert,et al.  Web Site Engineering , 2001 .

[18]  Ph. Thiran,et al.  Interoperability of Legacy Databases A Combined Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach , 2007 .

[19]  Philippe Thiran,et al.  Strategies for data reengineering , 2002, Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2002. Proceedings..

[20]  Vincent Englebert,et al.  Database Evolution: the DB-Main Approach , 1994, ER.