Michael Blaha

Michael Blaha is a partner at Modelsoft Consulting Corporation.

Blaha received his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in Chemical Engineering with his dissertation being about databases. Both his academic background and working experience involve engineering and computer science. He is an alumnus of the GE R&D Center in Schenectady, New York, working there for eight years. Since 1993, Blaha has been a consultant and trainer in the areas of modeling, software architecture, database design, and reverse engineering. Blaha has authored six U.S. patents, four books, and many papers. His most recent book is "Object-Oriented Modeling and Design with UML, Second Edition". Blaha is an editor for IEEE Computer as well as a member of the IEEE-CS publications board. He has also been active in the IEEE Working Conferences on Reverse Engineering.

Contribution to ODBMS.ORG

• 007.01 The Dilemma of Encapsulation vs. Query Optimization(PDF)
• 007.02 Referential Integrity Is Important For Databases (PDF)
• User Report 15/08: Michael Blaha at OMT (PDF)
• 007.03 An Example of Ignoring Referential Integrity The LDAP Standard (PDF)
• 007.04 Object-Oriented Design of Database Stored Procedures (PDF)

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