An Examination of Procedural and Object‐oriented Systems Analysis Methods: Does Prior Experience Help or...
Interest in object‐oriented analysis (OOA) and object‐oriented design (OOD) has expanded rapidly over the last several years. Proponents of...
An Enhanced Data Perturbation Approach for Small Data Sets
As modern organizations gather, analyze, and share large quantities of data, issues of privacy, and confidentiality are becoming increasingly...
An experiment in model-driven conceptual database design
The article presents the results of an experiment we conducted with database professionals in order to evaluate an approach...
Extending the Unified Modeling Language for ontology development
There is rapidly growing momentum for web enabled agents that reason about and dynamically integrate the appropriate knowledge and...
Process mining using BPMN: relating event logs and process models
Process-aware information systems (PAIS) are systems relying on processes, which involve human and software resources to achieve concrete goals....
BPMN-E2: a BPMN extension for an enhanced workflow description
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Specifying business rules in object-oriented analysis
A major purpose of analysis is to represent precisely all relevant facts, as they are observed in the external...
Reusing metamodels and notation with Diagram Definition
It is increasingly common for language specifications to describe visual forms (concrete syntax) separately from underlying concepts (abstract syntax)....
Evolution, not revolution
Any consideration of altering UML must account for its current user base and its potential role as the keystone...
What practitioners really want: requirements for visual notations in conceptual modeling
This research was aimed at eliciting the requirements of practitioners who use conceptual modeling in their professional work for...