Reverse Engineering of a Generic Relational Database Schema Into a Domain-Specific Data Model

Abstract

Information system (IS) reengineering process comprises reverse engineering process of an existing IS followed by some form of forward engineering or restructuring. An important phase of a data-oriented software system reengineering is a database reengineering process and, in particular, its sub-process - database reverse engineering process. In this paper we present one of the model-to-model transformations from a chain of transformations aimed at transformation of a generic relational database schema into a domain-specific data model based on form types. The transformation is a step of the data structure conceptualization phase of a model-driven database reverse engineering process that is implemented in IIS*Studio development environment.