Automating the Adaptation of Evolving Data-Intensive Ecosystems
Data-intensive ecosystems are conglomerations of data repositories surrounded by applications that depend on them for their operation. To support...
What’s Up in Business Intelligence? A Contextual and Knowledge-Based Perspective
The explosive growth in the amount of data poses challenges in analyzing large data sets and retrieving relevant information...
sonSchema: A Conceptual Schema for Social Networks
sonSQL is a MySQL variant that aims to be the default database system for social network data. It uses...
Modeling and Reasoning with Decision-Theoretic Goals
Goal models have found important applications in Requirements Engineering as models that relate stakeholder requirements with system or human...
TBIM: A Language for Modeling and Reasoning about Business Plans
Conceptual models of different aspects of an organization—business objectives, processes, rules, policies and objects—have been used for organizational design,...
Automated Reasoning for Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory compliance is gaining attention from information systems engineers who must design systems that at the same time satisfy...
Is Traditional Conceptual Modeling Becoming Obsolete?
Traditionally, the research and practice of conceptual modeling assumed relevant information about a domain is determined in advance to...
Cognitive Mechanisms of Conceptual Modelling
Conceptual modelling involves many higher order cognitive processes, such as relational reasoning and abstraction, which are based on integration...
A Semantic Analysis of Shared References
Models, according to common understanding, facilitate to make and share references. A reference is a deictic activity whose point...
Are Conceptual Models Concept Models?
The conceptual modelling community not only has no clear, general agreement on what its models model, it also has...
