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Front. Inform. Technol. Electron. Eng.  2016, Vol. 17 Issue (9): 862-884    DOI: 10.1631/FITEE.1600997
    
Information schema constructs for defining warehouse databases of genotypes and phenotypes of system manifestation features
Shahab Pourtalebi, Imre Horváth
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands
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Abstract  Our long-term objective is to develop a software toolbox for pre-embodiment design of complex and heterogeneous systems, such as cyber-physical systems. The novelty of this toolbox is that it uses system manifestation features (SMFs) for transdisciplinary modeling of these systems. The main challenges of implementation of the toolbox are functional design- and language-independent computational realization of the warehouses, and systematic development and management of the various evolving implements of SMFs (genotypes, phenotypes, and instances). Therefore, an information schema construct (ISC) based approach is proposed to create the schemata of the associated warehouse databases and the above-mentioned SMF implements. ISCs logically arrange the data contents of SMFs in a set of relational tables of varying semantics. In this article we present the ISCs necessary for creation of genotypes and phenotypes. They increase the efficiency of the database development process and make the data relationships transparent. Our follow-up research focuses on the elaboration of the SMF instances based system modeling methodology.

Key wordsCyber-physical systems      Software toolbox      Pre-embodiment design      System manifestation features (SMFs)      Warehouses      Database schemata      SMF genotypes      SMF phenotypes      SMF instances      Information schema constructs     
Received: 15 February 2016      Published: 31 August 2016
CLC:  TP391  
  TP311  
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Shahab Pourtalebi, Imre Horváth. Information schema constructs for defining warehouse databases of genotypes and phenotypes of system manifestation features. Front. Inform. Technol. Electron. Eng., 2016, 17(9): 862-884.

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用于定义系统表现特征的基因型与表型仓库数据库的信息图式构造方法

概要:我们的长期目标是为复杂、异构系统(如信息物理系统)的预实体化设计建立一个软件工具箱。该工具箱的新颖性在于其利用了系统表现特征(system manifestation features, SMF)来进行跨学科的系统建模。实现该工具箱的难点在于其仓库的计算实现不依赖于功能设计和语言,和对于多种不断演变的SMF(基因型、表型及实例)工具的系统化的开发和管理。因此,我们提出了一种基于信息模式构造(information schema construct, ISC)的方法用以构造相关联的仓库数据库图式以及前述的SMF。ISC从逻辑上将SMF的数据内容整合为一组不同语义下的关系表。本文中我们给出了创建基因型和表型所必需的信息模式构造。这些信息模式构造提高了数据库的开发效率,并使数据之间的联系透明化。下一步研究中我们将重点关注基于SMF实例的系统建模方法的实施细节。

关键词: 信息物理系统,  软件工具箱,  预实体化设计,  系统表现特征,  仓库,  数据库图式,  基因型系统表现特征,  表型系统表现特征,  实例系统表现特征,  信息模式构造 
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