EERMM: A Metamodel for the Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model
A metamodel describes the elements of a model, the relationships between them, and the structuring rules that constraint the...
Conceptual Modeling for Systems Integration
Conceptual modeling for systems integration is challenging because of two reasons. First, it must deal with a universe of...
Introducing Usability in a Conceptual Modeling-Based Software Development Process
Usability plays an important role to satisfy users’ needs. There are many recommendations in the HCI literature on how...
Ontology Evolution: Assisting Query Migration
Information systems rely more and more on semantic web ontologies to share and interpret data within and across research...
Conceptualizing Data in Multinational Enterprises: Model Design and Application
Collaboration and coordination within multinational enterprises need unambiguous semantics of data across business units, legal contexts, cultures etc. Therefore...
Ontology of Dynamic Entities
This paper describes “dynamic business entities”, ontological classes that dynamically acquire and lose properties and relationships as a function...
A Metadata-based Approach to Leveraging the Information Supply of Business Intelligence Systems
Ensuring adequate information provision continues to be a key challenge of corporate decision making and the usage of business...
A Supervised Method for Lexical Annotation of Schema Labels Based on Wikipedia
Lexical annotation is the process of explicit assignment of one or more meanings to a term w.r.t. a sense...
Optimising Schema Evolution Operation Sequences in Object Databases for Data Evolution
We propose an approach to optimising schema evolution operation sequences in object databases. The approach separates operations that add...
Capturing Variability of Law with Nómos 2
Regulatory compliance is increasingly viewed as an essential element of requirements engineering. Laws, but also regulations and policies, frame...
