Adoption of OSS components: A goal-oriented approach
Open Source Software (OSS) has become a strategic asset for a number of reasons, such as short time-to-market software...
Conceptual schemas with abstractions Making flat conceptual schemas more comprehensible
Flat graphical, conceptual modeling techniques are widely accepted as visually effective ways in which to specify and communicate the...
Multiple abstraction levels in modelling product structures
The need for product customisation is driving industrial companies towards a very large product variety, which aects many functions...
Enhancing information systems management with natural language processing techniques
Natural language and databases are core components of information systems. They are related to each other because they share...
MOODD, a method for object-oriented database design
In this paper we propose a Method for Object-Oriented Database Design, called MOODD. Considerable recent research has focused...
Supporting schema integration by linguistic instruments
Two major problems in schema integration are to identify correspondences between different conceptual schemas and to verify that the...
ON-SMMILE: Ontology Network-based Student Model for MultIple Learning Environments
Currently, many educational researchers focus on the extraction of information about the learning progress to properly assist students. We...
Combining objects with rules to represent aggregation knowledge in data warehouse and OLAP systems
Data warehouses are based on multidimensional modeling. Using On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools, decision makers navigate through and analyze...
Debugging the missing is-a structure within taxonomies networked by partial reference alignments
With the proliferation of ontologies and their use in semantically-enabled applications, the issue of finding and repairing defects in...
An approach to website schema.org design
Schema.org offers to web developers the opportunity to enrich a website's content with microdata and schema.org. For large websites,...
