Tailoring Database Training for End Users
Lack of familiarity with database design methods could prevent many end users from effectively implementing their database management system...
User-Database Interface: The Effect of Abstraction Levels on Query Performance*
A common classification of data models is based on their abstraction levels: physicai, logical and conceptual. The user-database interaction...
Process models representing knowledge for action: a revised quality framework
A semiotic framework for evaluating the quality of conceptual models was proposed by (Lindland OI, Sindre G and Sølvberg...
An assessment of package-organisation misalignment: institutional and ontological structures
Even with today’s ‘best practice’ software, commercial packages continue to pose significant alignment challenges for many organisations. This paper...
Model-based software configuration: patterns and languages
The common presupposition of enterprise systems (ES) is that they lead to significant efficiency gains. However, this is only...
Conceptual EuroModelling: how do SSADM and MERISE compare?
The systems development methods SSADM and MERISE are the de facto standard methods of the UK and France respectively,...
Developing a unified framework of the business model concept
Recent rapid advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have highlighted the rising importance of the Business Model (BM)...
Ternary relationships—to three or not to three, is there a question?
Recent empirical research offers general data modelling guidance, claiming to show that object-oriented modelling is less effective than entity-relationship...
data model development for fire related extreme events: an activity theory approach
Post-analyses of major extreme events reveal that information sharing is critical for effective emergency response. The lack of consistent...
using eye tracking to expose cognitive processes in understanding conceptual models
Conceptual models are used to communicate information about a domain during the development of information systems. In two experimental...
