Representing and Elaborating Quality Requirements: The QRA Approach
This paper presents the quality requirements analysis ( QRA ) approach to requirements modeling. The QRA...
Semantic-Based Mappings
Data translation consists of the task of moving data from a source database to a target database. This task...
Towards a Strategy-Oriented Value Modeling Language: Identifying Strategic Elements of the VDML Meta-model
The concept of value is increasingly important in organizations. This has led to the creation of value models that...
Managing Security Requirements Conflicts in Socio-Technical Systems
Requirements are inherently prone to conflicts, for they originate from stakeholders with different, often opposite, needs. Security requirements are...
Optimising Conceptual Data Models through Profiling in Object Databases
Agile methods promote iterative development with short cycles, where user feedback from the previous iteration is used to refactor...
Skyline Queries over Incomplete Data – Error Models for Focused Crowd-Sourcing
Skyline queries are a well-known technique for explorative retrieval, multi-objective optimization problems, and personalization tasks in databases. They are...
Toward an Ontology-Driven Unifying Metamodel for UML Class Diagrams, EER, and ORM2
Software compatibility and application integration can be achieved using their respective conceptual data models. However, each model may be...
Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of foundational ontologies, i.e., formal ontological theories...
Baquara: A Holistic Ontological Framework for Movement Analysis Using Linked Data
Movement understanding frequently requires further information and knowledge than what can be obtained from bare spatio-temporal traces. Despite recent...
From Structure-Based to Semantics-Based: Towards Effective XML Keyword Search
Existing XML keyword search approaches can be categorized into tree-based search and graph-based search. Both of them are structure-based...
