Combining Personalization and Groupization to Enhance Web Search
To improve retrieval effectiveness, personalized search engines adjust the search results according to the user’s interest profile. Most of...
Colored Petri Nets for Integrating the Data Perspective in Process Audits
The complexity of business processes and the data volume of processed transactions increase with the ongoing integration of information...
Former Students’ Perception of Improvement Potential of Conceptual Modeling in Practice
Several authors have pointed out a significant gap between Conceptual Modeling (CM) theory and practice. It is then natural...
Big Data—Conceptual Modeling to the Rescue
Big data is characterized by volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. We should expect conceptual modeling to provide some answers...
Automating the Adaptation of Evolving Data-Intensive Ecosystems
Data-intensive ecosystems are conglomerations of data repositories surrounded by applications that depend on them for their operation. To support...
What’s Up in Business Intelligence? A Contextual and Knowledge-Based Perspective
The explosive growth in the amount of data poses challenges in analyzing large data sets and retrieving relevant information...
sonSchema: A Conceptual Schema for Social Networks
sonSQL is a MySQL variant that aims to be the default database system for social network data. It uses...
Modeling and Reasoning with Decision-Theoretic Goals
Goal models have found important applications in Requirements Engineering as models that relate stakeholder requirements with system or human...
TBIM: A Language for Modeling and Reasoning about Business Plans
Conceptual models of different aspects of an organization—business objectives, processes, rules, policies and objects—have been used for organizational design,...
Automated Reasoning for Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance is gaining attention from information systems engineers who must design systems that at the same time satisfy...
