planning - designing - developing IT
Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Data & Knowledge Engineering

A knowledge representation of the beginning of the innovation process: The Front End of...

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The initial phase of the innovation process is widely accepted as an important driver of positive results for new...

An overview of the ONIONS project: Applying ontologies to the integration of medical terminologies

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The paper presents a review of the ONIONS project. ONIONS is committed to developing a large-scale, axiomatized ontology library...

Knowledge maps: An essential technique for conceptualisation

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The process of conceptualisation is a fundamental problem-solving activity and, hence, is an essential activity for solving the problem...

Scheduling ontology development projects

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In the ontology engineering field, key aspects of real-world business contexts are not normally taken into account. One of...

EVORM: A conceptual modelling technique for evolving application domains

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In this paper we present EVORM, a data modelling technique for evolving application domains. EVORM is the result of...

A process ontology based approach to easing semantic ambiguity in business process modeling

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Business process modeling continues to increase in complexity, due, in part, to the dynamic business contexts and complicated domain...

Learning non-taxonomic relationships from web documents for domain ontology construction

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In recent years, much effort has been put in ontology learning. However, the knowledge acquisition process is typically focused...

An abductive, linguistic approach to model retrieval

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In the early phases of requirements engineering, inspecting previously constructed conceptual models is important both for reusing specifications and...

Representation of conceptual ETL designs in natural language using Semantic Web technology

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Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes constitute the back stage of Data Warehouse architectures. Several studies characterize the ETL design as a...

Linguistically based requirements engineering – The NIBA-project

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Usually, the development of an information system (or some part of it) starts with requirement elicitation followed by a...