Modeling Service Compatibility with Pi-calculus for Choreography
Service choreography has become an emerging and promising technology to design and build complex cross-enterprise business applications. Dynamic composition...
The DeltaGrid Abstract Execution Model: Service Composition and Process Interference Handling
This paper introduces the DeltaGrid abstract execution model as a foundation for building a semantically robust execution environment for...
Evaluating Quality of Conceptual Models Based on User Perceptions
This paper presents the development of a user evaluations based quality model for conceptual modeling applying the model of...
Representation Theory Versus Workflow Patterns – The Case of BPMN
Selecting an appropriate process modeling language forms an important task within business process management projects. A wide range of...
Use Case Modeling and Refinement: A Quality-Based Approach
In this paper, we propose a quality-based use case refinement approach. It consists of a step by step refinement...
Ontology with Likeliness and Typicality of Objects in Concepts
Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However,...
In Defense of a Trope-Based Ontology for Conceptual Modeling: An Example with the Foundations...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in approaches that employ foundational ontologies as theoretical tools for...
Explicitly Representing Superimposed Information in a Conceptual Model
Superimposed information (SI) refers to new information such as annotations and summaries overlaid on fragments of existing base information...
Preference Functional Dependencies for Managing Choices
The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization...
Automatic Creation of Web Services from Extraction Ontologies
The Semantic Web promises to provide timely, targeted access to user-specified information online. Though standardized services exist for performing...
