Continued use of process modeling grammars: the impact of individual difference factors
Process modeling grammars are used by analysts to describe information systems domains in terms of the business operations an...
The ontological deficiencies of process modeling in practice
Business process modeling is widely regarded as one of the most popular forms of conceptual modeling. However, little is...
Practitioner perceptions on the use of some semantic concepts in the entity-relationship model
This paper seeks to show that aspects of the entity-relationship data modelling method, for the analysis of systems, are...
Applying ontology-based rules to conceptual modeling: a reflection on modeling decision making
Conceptual modeling represents a domain independently of implementation considerations for purposes of understanding the problem at hand and communicating...
Designing enterprise integration solutions: effectively
The design of large and complex enterprise integration solutions is a difficult task. It can require solutions that are...
Extending the entity-relationship model to capture dynamic behaviour
The entity-relationship data model is extended by structural integrity constraints. For each entity and relationship, a list of update...
A language-mapping approach to action-oriented development of information systems
Two important views in the development of information systems are the action view and the reaction view which govern...
DSMDiff: a differentiation tool for domain-specific models
Model differentiation techniques, which provide the capability to identify mappings and differences between models, are essential to many model...