Software as a Social Artifact: A Management and Evolution Perspective
For many, software is just code, something intangible best defined in contrast with hardware, but it is not particularly...
Domain Ontology As Conceptual Model for Big Data Management: Application in Biomedical Informatics
The increasing capability and sophistication of biomedical instruments has led to rapid generation of large volumes of disparate data...
Modelling Risks in Open Source Software Component Selection
Adopting Open Source Software (OSS) components is a decision that offers many potential advantages – such as cost effectiveness...
Network Analytics ER Model – Towards a Conceptual View of Network Analytics
This paper proposes a conceptual modelling paradigm for network analysis applications, called the Network Analytics ER model (NAER). Not...
Model-Driven Design of Graph Databases
Graph Database Management Systems (GDBMS) are rapidly emerging as an effective and efficient solution to the management of very...
Utility-Friendly Heterogenous Generalization in Privacy Preserving Data Publishing
K-anonymity is one of the most important anonymity models that have been widely investigated and various techniques have been...
From Conceptual Models to Safety Assurance
Safety assurance or certification is one of the most costly and time-consuming tasks in automotive, railway, avionics, and other...
A New Approach for N-ary Relationships in Object Databases
In an object-oriented or object-relational database, an n-ary relationship among objects is normally represented in a relation that is...
Database Design for NoSQL Systems
We propose a database design methodology for NoSQL systems. The approach is based on NoAM (NoSQL Abstract Model), a...
Fixing Up Non-executable Operations in UML/OCL Conceptual Schemas
An operation is executable if there is at least one information base in which its preconditions hold and such...
