Improving Sequence Diagram Modeling Performance: A Technique Based on Chunking, Ordering, and Patterning
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for object-oriented software development. It has been widely...
Data Modeling: An Ontological Perspective of Pointers
Research on ontology and conceptual data modeling builds on the premise that the world could be represented in terms...
Using Ontology and Rule-Based Reasoning for Conceptual Data Models Synonyms Detection: A Case Study
Conceptual data models can change during the information system development and teamwork phases, which require constantly monitoring with synonyms...
Modeling Design Patterns for Semi-Automatic Reuse in System Design
Design patterns provide reusable solutions for recurring design problems. They constitute an important tool for improving software quality. However,...
Maintaining Mappings between Conceptual Models and relational Schemas
This paper describes a round-trip engineering approach for incrementally maintaining mappings between conceptual models and relational schemas. When either...
Investigating Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Business Processes
Business processes are designed to execute strategies that aim at achieving organisational goals. During the last decade, several methods...
CAM: A Conceptual Modeling Framework based on the Analysis of Entity Classes and Association...
The problem of identifying relevant classes (entities) and associations (relationships) is a fundamental problem for conceptual modeling. In a...
Toward a Formal Semantics for Control-Flow Process Models
A number of information systems have been developed to automate business processes. For process modeling, verification, and automation in...
Novice Designer Performance Comparison Between the Entity Relationship Event Network and the Event-Based Logical...
Previous information systems (IS) research has established that novice database designers experience cognitive overload when faced with many interacting...
Evaluation of MDE Tools from a Metamodeling Perspective
Ever since the introduction of computers into society, researchers have been trying to raise the abstraction level at which...
