Towards a theory of genericity based on government and binding

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Bienemann;Klaus-Dieter Schewe;Bernhard Thalheim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany;Information Science Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Conceptual modelling in the area of data-intensive systems produces database schemata and a variety of systems characteristics, which ideally could be used to facilitate the generation of an implementation. This paper proposes a framework for the development of patterns and components that will permit a direct computation of the corresponding functions, whenever all system parameters and the schemata of the application are known. For this a theory of genericity that is based on the linguistic theory of government and binding (GB), which consists of a two-step specialization of ideas or raw utterances, is developed. This theory of GB genericity is applied to obtain generic workflows and the functionality involved in them.