UN/CEFACT’S Modeling Methodology (UMM): A UML Profile for B2B e-Commerce
The United Nation’s Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is an e-business standardization body. It is known...
Using Unified Modeling Language for Conceptual Modelling of Knowledge-Based Systems
This paper discusses extending the Unified Modelling Language by means of a profile for modelling knowledge-based system in the...
Capturing Security Requirements in Business Processes Through a UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams Profile
Security has become a crucial aspect for the performance of present organizations since the protected object is the mission...
Tracing the Rationale Behind UML Model Change Through Argumentation
Neglecting traceability—i.e., the ability to describe and follow the life of a requirement—is known to entail misunderstanding and miscommunication,...
Finite State History Modeling and Its Precise UML-Based Semantics
This paper discusses the notion of a state history diagram. The concept is directly motivated by a new analysis...
Exploring Alternatives for Representing and Accessing Design Knowledge About Enterprise Integration
Enterprise integration refers to solutions that facilitate meaningful interactions among heterogeneous legacy applications. The scale, complexity and specificity of...
A UML Profile for Modeling Schema Mappings
When trying to obtain semantical interoperability between different information systems, the integration of heterogeneous information sources is a fundamental...
Mining and Re-engineering Transactional Workflows for Reliable Executions
A continuous evolution of business process parameters, constraints and needs, hardly foreseeable initially, requires from the business process management...
Cross: An OWL Wrapper for Reasoning on Relational Databases
One of the challenges of the Semantic Web is to integrate the huge amount of information already available on...
Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structural Constructs
Current graphical notations for XML Schema do not raise the level of abstraction for XML schemata in the same...
