Conceptual Modeling of Life: Beyond the Homo Sapiens
Our strong capability of conceptualization makes us, human beings, different from any other species in our planet. We, as...
Searching for Patterns in Sequential Data: Functionality and Performance Assessment of Commercial and Open-Source...
Ubiquitous devices and applications generate data that are naturally ordered by time. Thus elementary data items can form sequences....
A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Business Analytics
Data analytics is an essential element for success in modern enterprises. Nonetheless, to effectively design and implement analytics systems...
Data, Control, and Process Flow Modeling for IoT Driven Smart Solutions
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies advance physical objects capabilities regarding programmable, sensor-based and connected. Today’s smart applications leverage IoT...
Determining the Preferred Representation of Temporal Constraints in Conceptual Models
The need for expressing temporal constraints in conceptual models is well-known, but it is unclear which representation is preferred...
User Perception of Numeric Contribution Semantics for Goal Models: An Exploratory Experiment
Goal models have long been regarded to be an effective way for representing stakeholder goals and how they relate...
On the Impact of the Model-Based Representation of Inconsistencies to Manual Reviews
To ensure fulfilling stakeholder wishes, it is crucial to validate the documented requirements. This is often complicated by the...
On the Semantics of Ongoing and Future Occurrence Identifiers
According to the standard wisdom, all temporal occurrences are considered as “frozen in time”. This means that all their...
Ontological Evolutionary Encoding to Bridge Machine Learning and Conceptual Models: Approach and Industrial Evaluation
In this work, we propose an evolutionary ontological encoding approach to enable Machine Learning techniques to be used to...
The OntoREA© Accounting and Finance Model: Ontological Conceptualization of the Accounting and Finance Domain
Geerts and McCarthy extended McCarthy’s Resource-Event-Agent (REA) accounting model with a forward-looking perspective by including commitments and...
