UMLtoGraphDB: Mapping Conceptual Schemas to Graph Databases
The need to store and manipulate large volume of (unstructured) data has led to the development of several NoSQL...
Facilitating Data-Metadata Transformation by Domain Specialists in a Web-Based Information System Using Simple Correspondences
We seek to empower domain specialists and non-technical web designers to be able to design and configure their system...
Visualizing User Story Requirements at Multiple Granularity Levels via Semantic Relatedness
The majority of practitioners express software requirements using natural text notations such as user stories. Despite the readability of...
Keyword Queries over the Deep Web
The Deep Web is constituted by data that are accessible through Web pages, but not indexable by search engines...
Sensor Observation Service Semantic Mediation: Generic Wrappers for In-Situ and Remote Devices
In-situ and remote sensors produce data that fit different data modeling paradigms, namely, Entity/Relationship paradigm for the former and...
Key Performance Indicator Elicitation and Selection Through Conceptual Modelling
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) operationalize ambiguous enterprise goals into quantified variables with clear thresholds. Their usefulness has been established...
Probabilistic Evaluation of Process Model Matching Techniques
Process model matching refers to the automatic identification of corresponding activities between two process models. It represents the basis...
Insights on the Use and Application of Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Languages in Ontology-Driven...
In this paper, we critically survey the existing literature in ontology-driven conceptual modeling in order to identify the kind...
Context-Aware Workflow Execution Engine for E-Contract Enactment
An e-contract is a contract that is specified, modeled and executed by a software system. E-contract business processes are...
An Ontological Approach for Identifying Software Variants: Specialization and Template Instantiation
Software is a crucial component of many products and often is a product in itself. Software artifacts are typically...