Business Processes Contextualisation via Context Analysis
Context-awareness has emerged as a new perspective for business process modelling. Even though some works have studied it, many...
Maintaining Consistency of Probabilistic Databases: A Linear Programming Approach
The problem of maintaining consistency via functional dependencies (FDs) has been studied and analyzed extensively within traditional database settings....
A Generic Perspective Model for the Generation of Business Process Views
Overwhelmed by the model size and the diversity of presented information in huge business process models, the stakeholders in...
Full Satisfiability of UML Class Diagrams
UML class diagrams (UCDs) are the de-facto standard formalism for the analysis and design of information systems. By adopting...
Extending Organizational Modeling with Business Services Concepts: An Overview of the Proposed Architecture
Nowadays, there is wide consensus on the importance of organizational modelling in the definition of software systems that correctly...
Decision-Making Ontology for Information System Engineering
Information Systems (IS) engineering (ISE) processes contain steps where decisions must be made. Moreover, the growing role of IS...
Reasoning with Optional and Preferred Requirements
Of particular concern in requirements engineering is the selection of requirements to implement in the next release of a...
A Conceptual Approach to Database Applications Evolution
Data-intensive systems are subject to continuous evolution that translates ever-changing business and technical requirements. System evolution usually constitutes a...
Automated Co-evolution of Conceptual Models, Physical Databases, and Mappings
Schema evolution is an unavoidable consequence of the application development lifecycle. The two primary schemas in an application, the...
A SchemaGuide for Accelerating the View Adaptation Process
Materialization of XML views significantly improves query performance in the often slow execution times for XPath expressions. Existing efforts...
