Form and Substance in Physical Database Design: An Empirical Study
As with many complex design problems, physical database design is difficult, ill-structured, and highly human intensive. In order to...
Are Attributes Entities? A Study of Database Designers’ Memory Structures
A longstanding debate in the data modeling literature pertains to whether the grammars used to generate conceptual schemas should...
Should Optional Properties Be Used in Conceptual Modelling? A Theory and Three Empirical Tests
An important feature of some conceptual modelling grammars is the features they provide to allow database designers to show...
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling–A Research Agenda
Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some...
Improving Analysis Pattern Reuse in Conceptual Design: Augmenting Automated Processes with Supervised Learning
Conceptual design is an important, but difficult, phase of systems development. Analysis patterns can greatly benefit this phase because...
Understanding Conceptual Schemas: Exploring the Role of Application and IS Domain Knowledge
Although information systems (IS) problem solving involves knowledge of both the IS and application domains, little attention has been...
An Empirical Investigation of End-User Query Development: The Effects of Improved Model Expressiveness vs....
Data models provide a map of the components of an information system. Prior research has indicated that more expressive...
Conceptualizing Systems for Understanding: An Empirical Test of Decomposition Principles in Object-Oriented Analysis
During the early phase of systems development, systems analysts often conceptualize the domain under study and represent it in...
Modeling Spatial and Temporal Set-Based Constraints During Conceptual Database Design
From a database perspective, business constraints provide an accurate picture of the real world being modeled and help enforce...
How Semantics and Pragmatics Interact in Understanding Conceptual Models
Underlying the design of any information system is an explicit or implicit conceptual model of the domain that the...
