Methodology evaluation framework for component-based system development
Components are already prominent in the implementation and deployment of advanced distributed information systems. Part and parcel of this...
Modeling temporal dynamics for business systems
Research in temporal database management has viewed temporal dynamics from a structural perspective, posing extensions to the entity-relationship (E-R)...
Enhancing UML Models: A Domain Analysis Approach
UML has been largely adopted as a standard modeling language. The emergence of UML from different modeling languages that refer to various...
Conceptual Data Modeling Patterns: Representation and Validation
The tremendous demand for software productivity has led to the idea of reuse of solutions that have worked successfully...
Physical Modeling of Data Warehouses Using UML Component and Deployment Diagrams: Design and Implementation...
Several approaches have been proposed to model different aspects of a Data Warehouse (DW) during recent years, such as...
Using Iconic Graphics in Entity-Relationship Diagrams: The Impact on Understanding
This study reports on an experiment examining the impact of iconic graphics on participants’ understanding of domains represented by...
Understanding the role of use cases in UML: A review and research agenda
A use case is a description ofa sequence of actions constituting a complete task or transaction in an application....
Human factors research on data modeling: A review of prior research, an extended framework...
This study reviews and synthesizes human factors research on conceptual data modeling. In addition to analyzing the variables used in earlier studies...
A Template for Defining Enterprise Modelling Constructs
The paper explains the need for a standard way of defining modelling constructs from different enterprise modelling languages and...
Metaschemas for ER, ORM and UML data models: A comparison
This paper provides metaschemas for some of the main database modeling notations used in industry. Two entity relationship (ER) notations are examined...
