Towards improving the navigability of Web applications: a model-driven approach
Navigability in use, defined as the efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction with which a user navigates through the system in...
Novice errors in conceptual database design
Conceptual and logical database modelling are difficult tasks for designers, and the potential for committing and correcting errors is...
Using DEKAF to understand data modelling in the practitioner domain
Despite the ubiquitous use of entity-relationship modelling for more than twenty years, there is surprisingly little evidence of how...
Action-oriented conceptual modelling
The aim of this paper is to show how speech act theory can be used in systems development as...
Platform ontologies for the model-driven architecture
The model-driven architecture enables the deployment of software applications on different platforms. It is based on a pattern in...
Model-driven multidimensional modeling of secure data warehouses
Data Warehouses (DW), Multidimensional (MD) databases, and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications provide companies with many years of historical...
Empirical investigation of the usefulness of Gateway constructs in process models
Process modeling grammars are used to create scripts of a business domain that a process-aware information system is intended...
Continued use of process modeling grammars: the impact of individual difference factors
Process modeling grammars are used by analysts to describe information systems domains in terms of the business operations an...
The ontological deficiencies of process modeling in practice
Business process modeling is widely regarded as one of the most popular forms of conceptual modeling. However, little is...
Practitioner perceptions on the use of some semantic concepts in the entity-relationship model
This paper seeks to show that aspects of the entity-relationship data modelling method, for the analysis of systems, are...
