Contract Workflow Model Patterns Using BPMN
Business Process Models are typically used to express inter or intra - enterprise business activities/processes. Contractual obligations need to...
The MAIS approach to web service design
This paper presents a first attempt to realize a methodological framework supporting the most relevant phases of the design...
Conceptual Model Evaluation. Towards more Paradigmatic Rigor
Information Systems (IS) research has so far been primarily concerned with the development of new modeling languages, techniques, and...
Classification of Web-Based Ontology Building Method Guidelines: a Case Study
Ontology is the core component in semantic Web applications. The employment of an ontology building method affects the quality...
An Hybrid Approach to QoS Evaluation
Usually, the process of development of services available as web applications considers only functional requirements. Since, an evergrowing number...
Methods as Action Knowledge: Exploring the Concept of Method Rationale in Method Construction, Tailoring...
Systems development methods are used to express and communicate knowledge about systems and software development processes; i.e. methods encapsulate...
Ontology-based Semantic Annotation of Process Templates for Reuse
Process templates are stored as valuable resources and then are retrieved and reused in other projects. In order to...
Adopting Open Source development tools in a commercial production environment – are we locked-in?
Many companies are using model-based techniques to offer a competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised systems development industry. Central...
Modeling, Auto-generation and Adaptation of Multi-Agent Systems
We propose a lightweight approach that provides mechanisms for dynamic agent behavior at run-time. Agent collaborations are modeled in...
Reuse of a repository of conceptual schemas in a large scale project
Large amounts of data are managed by organizations, available to be viewed and analysed from multiple perspectives, which becomes...
