Rapid Business Process Discovery (R-BPD)
Modeling is an important and time consuming part of the Business Process Management life-cycle. An analyst reviews existing documentation...
Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition
This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined...
Ontology-Driven Business Modelling: Improving the Conceptual Representation of the REA Ontology
Business modelling research is increasingly interested in exploring how domain ontologies can be used as reference models for business...
On the Discovery of Preferred Work Practice Through Business Process Variants
Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as disconnection between documented models and...
Towards Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes
The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description...
From Declarative to Imperative UML/OCL Operation Specifications
An information system maintains a representation of the state of the domain in its Information Base (IB). The state...
An Ontological Metamodel of Classifiers and Its Application to Conceptual Modelling and Database Design
Classification is a key concept in conceptual modeling. However, the recognition that there might be different kinds of classes...
Handling Inconsistency of Vague Relations with Functional Dependencies
Vague information is common in many database applications due to internet-scale data dissemination, such as those data arising from...
Querying Incomplete Data with Logic Programs: ER Strikes Back
Since Chen’s Entity-Relationship (ER) model, conceptual modelling has been playing a fundamental role in relational data design. In this...
Prioritized Preferences and Choice Constraints
It is increasingly recognised that user preferences should be addressed in many advanced database applications, such as adaptive searching...
