The Account Data Model
A new data model is proposed using a traditional accounting approach to model an organization’s transactional data and extending...
A Semantic Model for Hypertext Data Caching
In this paper, we propose a semantic model to capture the semantic locality in hypertext access for client-side caching....
Understanding and Simulating Narratives in the Context of Information Systems
A modelling tool is described, which integrates simulation, plan recognition and knowledge discovery modules to help the specification and...
Modelling Web-Based Banking Systems: Story Boarding and User Profiling
Electronic Business applications are often implemented using web-based Information Systems, in which human-to-human interaction is replaced by human-computer interaction....
On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling
As pointed out in the pioneering work of , an upper level ontology allows to evaluate the ontological correctness...
Communication: Key to Success on the Web
Much has been written about what constitutes good principles of web design. Significantly less attention has been paid to...
Finding and Characterizing Changes in Ontologies
Recently, the interest in the use of ontologies — which can be seen as formal representations of conceptual models...
Conceptual Modelling and Ontology: Possibilities and Pitfalls
The task of conceptual modelling is to build a high-quality representation of selected phenomena in some domain. The conceptual...
An Ontology for m-Business Models
The m-business landscape never stops to change and the impacts on the mobile market are constant as players reposition...
Modeling Dynamics of Business Processes: Key for Building Next Generation of Business Information Systems
During the past ten years, requirements on functionality of business information systems have been slowly changing. This shift consists...