From textual scenarios to a conceptual schema
Scenarios are a very popular means for describing and analyzing behavioral aspects on the level of natural language. In...
An ontology-based approach to knowledge representation for Computer-Aided Control System Design
Different approaches have been used in order to represent and build control engineering concepts for the computer. Software applications...
An analysis of ontologies and their success factors for application to business
Ontologies have been less successful than they could be in large-scale business applications due to a wide variety of...
Interoperability mapping from XML schemas to ER diagrams
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a de facto standard on the Internet and is now being used to...
An approach to test-driven development of conceptual schemas
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an extreme programming development method in which asoftware system is developed in short iterations. In...
COMIC: A system and methodology for conceptual modelling and information construction
The design of an IS requires that concepts and rules, i.e. a conceptual schema defining the...
Computing repairs for constraint violations in UML/OCLconceptual schemas
Updating the contentsof an information base may violate some of the constraints defined over theschema. The classical way to...
Towards object-oriented conceptual modeling
According to the object-oriented conceptual modeling approach that we present, a conceptual schema is a collection of...
Defining and validating metrics for assessingthe understandability of entity–relationship diagrams
Database and data model evolution cause significant problems in the highly dynamic business environment that weexperience these days. To...
Linguistically based conceptual modeling of business communication
In the performance of activities in an organization, communication plays a dominant role in that it allows people tocoordinate...
