Deriving Concepts for Modeling Business Actions
We outline a procedure called communicative and material functions analysis that can be used to derive business modeling concepts....
Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL
Transitive propagation along properties can be modelled in various ways in the OWL description logic. Doing so allows existing...
Towards a Reference Ontology for Business Models
Ontologies are viewed as increasingly important tools for structuring domains of interests. In this paper we propose a reference...
On Generating Content and Structural Annotated Websites Using Conceptual Modeling
An important milestone in the evolution of the Web is the Semantic Web: a Web in which the semantics...
A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis
Initial software quality requirements tend to be imprecise, subjective, idealistic, and context-specific. An extended characterization of the common Softgoal...
Conceptualizing the Co-evolution of Organizations and Information Systems: An Agent-Oriented Perspective
In today’s ever-transforming business environment, information systems need to evolve in concert with changes in their organizational settings. In...
Towards a Theory of Genericity Based on Government and Binding
Conceptual modelling in the area of data-intensive systems produces database schemata and a variety of systems characteristics, which ideally...
Concept Modeling by the Masses: Folksonomy Structure and Interoperability
The recent popularity of social software in the wake of the much hyped “Web2.0” has resulted in a flurry...
Method Chunks for Interoperability
Interoperability is a key property of enterprise applications, which is hard to achieve due to the large number of...
Domain Analysis for Supporting Commercial Off-the-Shelf Components Selection
Though new technological trends and paradigms arise for developing complex software systems, systematic reuse continues to be an elusive...
