Assigning ontological Meaning to Workflow Nets
A common way to represent organizational domains is the use of business process models. A Workflow-net (WF-net) is an...
Understanding Business Domain Models: The Effect of Recognizing Resource-Event-Agent Conceptual Modeling Structures
In this paper, the author investigates the effect on understanding of using business domain models that are constructed with...
A rigorous approach for mapping workflows to object-oriented IS models
Conceptual business models and conceptual models of information systems represent widely different perspectives, which are difficult to integrate due...
Complementing Business Process Verification by Validity Analysis: A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation
This paperinvestigatesthe need for complementing automated verification of business process models with a validity analysis performed by human analysts.As...
Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, and Extreme Programming: The State of Research
While there are many claims for the successful use of extreme programming (XP) and agile modeling (AM), and the...
A Meta-Analysis Comparing Relational and Semantic Models
Data modeling is the sine quo non of systems development and one of the most widely researched topics in...
Conflicts, Compromises, and Political Decisions: Methodological Challenges of Enterprise-Wide E-Business Architecture Creation
This article describes the architecture development process in an international ICT company, which is building a comprehensive e-business system...
Analyzing the Cognitive Difficulties for Developing and Using UML Class Diagrams for Domain Understanding
Developing and using conceptual models require modelers’ cognitive efforts. To identify and analyze the cognitive difficulties of modelers in...
Using business rules within a design process of active databases
Modeling behavior is an important task ofthe information system engineering process. This task is especially important when information systems...
An Event-Oriented Data Modeling Technique Based on the Cognitive Semantics Theory
The Resource-Event-Agent (REA) model has been proposed as a data modeling approach for representing accounting transactions. However, most business...
