A methodology for conceptual design of office data bases
Information Systems
A form-based approach for database analysis and design
Communications of the ACM
Automatic generation of graphical user interfaces for interactive database applications
CIKM '93 Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management
Entity-relationship and object-oriented data modeling—an experimental comparison of design quality
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Usability engineering: scenario-based development of human-computer interaction
Usability engineering: scenario-based development of human-computer interaction
Formalizing the Informational Content of Database User Interfaces
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Combined Analysis of User Interface and Domain Requirements
ICRE '96 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '96)
WYSIWYG development of data driven web applications
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Reverse engineering user interfaces for interactive database conceptual analysis
CAiSE'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Interactively eliciting database constraints and dependencies
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
As easy as “click”: end-user web engineering
ICWE'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Web Engineering
The transformational approach to database engineering
GTTSE'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering
The user interface is the conceptual model
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
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Since the necessity to associate end-users of the future system with its specification and development steps has proven indisputable, it is crucial to define accessible means to express and communicate conceptual requirements between end-users and analysts in the context of Information Systems engineering. For this purpose, we present a simple form-based interface model offering an understandable and expressive graphical counterpart to a rich subset of the Generic Entity-Relationship model (GER). We describe how the elements of the proposed interface model can be translated into GER schema constructs, bearing the semantic characterisation of inter-concept relationships. The exposed principles support the automated translation of user-drawn form-based interfaces into a conceptual schema. The same principles can also serve as a basis to support the inverse translation process that aims at deriving a set of form-based interfaces from a conceptual schema.