The Data Screen Diagram (DSD) Methodology: Facilitating End Users’ Creation of Normalized Data Schemas
The promise of relational database management systems of providing centralized data repositories customized to the organization’s data needs...
An Information Processing Model Based on Classification and its Application to Information Systems Architecture
Classification is a fundamental cognitive mechanism for organizing knowledge about the human environment. It is not surprising that,...
Toxic Concepts in Systems Analysis and Design: The Systems Development Lifecycle
This position paper argues that the the Systems Development Lifecycle is a Toxic Concept, i.e., an idea that is...
How Programmers View the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
While there has been considerable research on how (and how well) analysts communicate with users, there has been...
User Participation in Successful Systems Development: A Case Study
The importance of user participation or involvement for systems development success is now generally accepted, and rather than...
On Customizing Process Modeling: An Exploratory Case Study
While process modeling can provide several benefits, it comes with associated drawbacks and impediments. Prior research suggests that...
A Test of the Cognitive Effects of Ontological Construct Overload
The theory of ontological expressiveness posits that ontology can be used to predict the effects of conceptual modeling...
Developing Understanding through Guided Interaction in Conceptual Modeling
Defining information system requirements can be challenging. Researchers have proposed new techniques to address the challenge, such as...
Requirements Elicitation for Conceptual Modeling: Sufficiency and Effectiveness
Information requirements determination (IRD) is a critical activity in systems development. In the present research, we investigate the...
Using Goal-Based Concepts to Improve the Understandability of Organizational Context in Use-Case and Class...
Goals have been used in the Requirements Engineering field to document information systems needs. However, their utilization in...
