Towards a Holistic Conceptual Modelling-Based Software Development Process
Traditionally, the Conceptual Modelling (CM) community has been interested in defining methods to model Information Systems by specifying their...
A Quantitative Summary of XML Structures
Statistical summaries in relational databases mainly focus on the distribution of data values and have been found useful for...
A Multi-perspective Framework for Organizational Patterns
The goal of this paper is twofold. First we present a multi-perspective framework supporting the description of organizational patterns,...
Database to Semantic Web Mapping Using RDF Query Languages
One of the main drawbacks of the Semantic Web is the lack of semantically rich data, since most of...
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...
