Ravi Ramdoyal
Université de Namur
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conference on advanced information systems engineering | 2010
Ravi Ramdoyal; Anthony Cleve; Jean-Luc Hainaut
The first step of most database design methodologies consists in eliciting part of the user requirements from various sources such as user interviews and corporate documents. These requirements formalize into a conceptual schema of the application domain, that has proved to be difficult to validate, especially since the visual representation of the ER model has shown understandability limitations from the end-users standpoint. In contrast, we claim that prototypical user interfaces can be used as a two-way channel to efficiently express, capture and validate data requirements. Considering these interfaces as a possibly populated physical view on the database to be developed, reverse engineering techniques can be applied to derive their underlying conceptual schema. We present an interactive tool-supported approach to derive data requirements from user interfaces. This approach, based on an intensive user involvement, addresses a significant subset of data requirements, especially when combined with other requirement elicitation techniques.
conference on advanced information systems engineering | 2011
Ravi Ramdoyal; Jean-Luc Hainaut
When designing the conceptual schema of a future information system, it is crucial to define a set of constraints that will guarantee the consistency of the subsequent database once it is implemented and operational. Eliciting and expressing such constraints and dependencies is far from trivial, especially when end-users are involved and when there is no directly usable data to play with. In this paper, we present an interactive process aimed to elicit hidden constraints such as value domains, functional dependencies, attribute and role optionality and existence constraints. Inspired by the principles of Armstrong relations, it attempts to acquire minimal data samples in order to validate declared constraints, to elicit hidden constraints and to reject irrelevant constraints in conceptual schemas. This process is part of the RAINBOW approach, destined to develop the data model of an information system based, among others, on the reverse engineering of user-drawn form-based interfaces.
international conference on conceptual modeling | 2011
Ravi Ramdoyal; Anthony Cleve
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.
Databases and Applications | 2005
Anne-France Brogneaux; Ravi Ramdoyal; Julien Vilz; Jean-Luc Hainaut
international conference on computers helping people with special needs | 2016
V. Ramon; Ravi Ramdoyal; Sophie Marien; Arnaud Michot; Jimmy Nsenga; Gustavo Ospina; Fabian Steels; Quentin Boucher; Delphine Legrand; Christine Burnet; Perrine Vanmerbeek; Anne Spinewine
Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 2016
V. Ramon; Ravi Ramdoyal; Sophie Marien; Arnaud Michot; Jimmy Nsenga; Gustavo Ospina; Fabian Steels; Quentin Boucher; Delphine Legrand; Christine Burnet; Perrine Vanmerbeek; Anne Spinewine
Archive | 2009
Ravi Ramdoyal; Anthony Cleve; Anne-France Brogneaux; Jean-Luc Hainaut
Actes de l'Atelier DECOR (Passage à l'échelle des techniques de découverte de correspondances) | 2007
Jean-Luc Hainaut; Julien Vilz; Ravi Ramdoyal; Anne-France Brogneaux
Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 2006
Julien Vilz; Anne-France Brogneaux; Ravi Ramdoyal; Vincent Englebert; Jean-Luc Hainaut