Conceptual data modelling in theory and practice
Conceptual data modelling (CDM) refers to the phase of the information systems development process that involves the abstraction and...
Secure activity resource coordination: empirical evidence of enhanced security awareness in designing secure business...
Systems development methodologies incorporate security requirements as an afterthought in the non-functional requirements of systems. The lack of appropriate...
A conceptual database design approach based on rules and heuristics
Conceptual and logical database design are complex tasks for non-expert designers. Currently, the popular data models for conceptual and...
Towards improving the navigability of Web applications: a model-driven approach
Navigability in use, defined as the efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction with which a user navigates through the system in...
Novice errors in conceptual database design
Conceptual and logical database modelling are difficult tasks for designers, and the potential for committing and correcting errors is...
Using DEKAF to understand data modelling in the practitioner domain
Despite the ubiquitous use of entity-relationship modelling for more than twenty years, there is surprisingly little evidence of how...
Action-oriented conceptual modelling
The aim of this paper is to show how speech act theory can be used in systems development as...
Platform ontologies for the model-driven architecture
The model-driven architecture enables the deployment of software applications on different platforms. It is based on a pattern in...
Model-driven multidimensional modeling of secure data warehouses
Data Warehouses (DW), Multidimensional (MD) databases, and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications provide companies with many years of historical...
Empirical investigation of the usefulness of Gateway constructs in process models
Process modeling grammars are used to create scripts of a business domain that a process-aware information system is intended...
