Understanding Conceptual Schemas: Exploring the Role of Application and IS Domain Knowledge
Although information systems (IS) problem solving involves knowledge of both the IS and application domains, little attention has been...
The realities of database design: an essay on the sociology, semiology and pedagogy of...
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An Empirical Investigation of End-User Query Development: The Effects of Improved Model Expressiveness vs....
Data models provide a map of the components of an information system. Prior research has indicated that more expressive...
Conceptualizing Systems for Understanding: An Empirical Test of Decomposition Principles in Object-Oriented Analysis
During the early phase of systems development, systems analysts often conceptualize the domain under study and represent it in...
Modeling Spatial and Temporal Set-Based Constraints During Conceptual Database Design
From a database perspective, business constraints provide an accurate picture of the real world being modeled and help enforce...
How Semantics and Pragmatics Interact in Understanding Conceptual Models
Underlying the design of any information system is an explicit or implicit conceptual model of the domain that the...
The IQ of the Crowd: Understanding and Improving Information Quality in Structured User-Generated Content
User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a valuable organizational resource, as it is seen in many cases as a way...
On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a...
A core activity in information systems development involves building a conceptual model of the domain that an information system...
Unravelling Is-a Structures
Is~a relationships are widely recognized as conveying important information for database design. Although these relationships are implicitly hierarchical in...
An approach to object identification, selection and specification in object‐oriented analysis
When using current object-oriented methods in the development of computer-based information systems, problems frequently arise in the identification and...
