Towards a role-based contextual database

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Contributors

  • Tobias Jäkel - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Thomas Kühn - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Hannes Voigt - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)
  • Wolfgang Lehner - , TUD Dresden University of Technology (Author)

Abstract

Traditional modeling approaches and information systems assume static entities that represent all information and attributes at once. However, due to the evolution of information systems to increasingly context-aware and self-adaptive systems, this assumption no longer holds. To cope with the required flexibility, the role concept was introduced. Although researchers have proposed several role modeling approaches, they usually neglect the contextual characteristics of roles and their representation in database management systems. Unfortunately, these systems do not rely on a conceptual model of an information system, rather they model this information by their own means leading to transformation and maintenance overhead. So far, the challenges posed by dynamic complex entities, their first class implementation, and their contextual characteristics lack detailed investigations in the area of database management systems. Hence, this paper, presents an approach that ties a conceptual role-based data model and its database implementation together, to directly represent the information modeled conceptually inside a database management system. In particular, we propose a formal database model to describe roles and their contextual information in compartments. Moreover, to provide a context-dependent role-based database interface, we extend RSQL by compartments. Finally, we introduce RSQL Result Net to preserve the contextual role semantics as well as enable users and applications to both iterate and navigate over results produced by RSQL. In sum, these means allow for a coherent design of more dynamic, complex software systems.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Databases and Information Systems - 20th East European Conference, ADBIS 2016, Proceedings
EditorsPetr Šaloun, Mirjana Ivanović, Jaroslav Pokorný, Bernhard Thalheim
PublisherSpringer, Berlin [u. a.]
Pages89-103
Number of pages15
ISBN (print)9783319440385
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 9809
ISSN0302-9743

Conference

Title20th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2016
Duration28 - 31 August 2016
CityPrague
CountryCzech Republic

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8107-2775/work/142253540

Keywords

Keywords

  • Contextual database, Query language, Result net, Role model

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