Non-binary Evaluation for Schema Matching
In this work we extend the commonly used binary evaluation of schema matching to support evaluation methods for non-binary...
An Integrated Conceptual Model to Incorporate Information Tasks in Workflow Models
In information-rich environments, participants can, and often must, access and use diverse sources of data to support their decision-making...
A Method for the Definition and Treatment of Conceptual Schema Quality Issues
In the literature, there are many proposals of quality properties of conceptual schemas, but only a few of them...
Synthesizing Object Life Cycles from Business Process Models
Business process models expressed in UML activity diagrams can specify the flow of stateful business objects among activities. Such...
EERMM: A Metamodel for the Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model
A metamodel describes the elements of a model, the relationships between them, and the structuring rules that constraint the...
Conceptual Modeling for Systems Integration
Conceptual modeling for systems integration is challenging because of two reasons. First, it must deal with a universe of...
Introducing Usability in a Conceptual Modeling-Based Software Development Process
Usability plays an important role to satisfy users’ needs. There are many recommendations in the HCI literature on how...
Ontology Evolution: Assisting Query Migration
Information systems rely more and more on semantic web ontologies to share and interpret data within and across research...
Conceptualizing Data in Multinational Enterprises: Model Design and Application
Collaboration and coordination within multinational enterprises need unambiguous semantics of data across business units, legal contexts, cultures etc. Therefore...
Ontology of Dynamic Entities
This paper describes “dynamic business entities”, ontological classes that dynamically acquire and lose properties and relationships as a function...
