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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Journal Papers

Please find the recent articles from scientific journals in information systems, computer science, software engineering and other disciplines.

A complete set of guidelines for naming UML conceptualschema elements

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We focus on the problem of naming conceptual schema elements in UML, which is faced byconceptual modelers every time...

Insights into enterprise conceptual modeling

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Business analysts, business architects, and solution consultants use a variety of practices andmethods in their quest to understand business....

Improving the quality of conceptual modeling usingcognitive mapping techniques

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Conceptual modeling involves the understanding and communication between system analysts and end-users. Many factors may affect the quality of...

Towards an accurate functional size measurement procedurefor conceptual models in an MDA environment

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The accurate measurement of the functional size of applications that are automaticallygenerated in MDA environments is a challenge for...

Evaluating quality of conceptual modelling scripts basedon user perceptions

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This paper presents the development of a user evaluations based quality model for conceptual modelling scripts applyingSeddon’s variant of...

Theoretical and practical issues in evaluating the qualityof conceptual models: current state and future...

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An international standard has now been established for evaluating the quality of software products.However there is no equivalent standard...

Multi-level ontology-based conceptual modeling

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Since the late 1980s, there has been a growing interest in the use of foundational ontologies toprovide a sound...

Big data technologies and Management: What conceptualmodeling can do

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The era of big data has resulted in the development and applications of technologies andmethods aimed at effectively using...

Business-driven data analytics: A conceptual modeling framework

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The effective development of advanced data analytics solutions requires tackling challenges suchas eliciting analytical requirements, designing the machine learning...

Enhancing the semantics of UML association redefinition

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Association redefinition is a UML construct that permits us to define an association end morespecifically in a particular context....