A Meta-Analysis Comparing Relational and Semantic Models
Data modeling is the sine quo non of systems development and one of the most widely researched topics in...
Conflicts, Compromises, and Political Decisions: Methodological Challenges of Enterprise-Wide E-Business Architecture Creation
This article describes the architecture development process in an international ICT company, which is building a comprehensive e-business system...
Analyzing the Cognitive Difficulties for Developing and Using UML Class Diagrams for Domain Understanding
Developing and using conceptual models require modelers’ cognitive efforts. To identify and analyze the cognitive difficulties of modelers in...
Using business rules within a design process of active databases
Modeling behavior is an important task ofthe information system engineering process. This task is especially important when information systems...
An Event-Oriented Data Modeling Technique Based on the Cognitive Semantics Theory
The Resource-Event-Agent (REA) model has been proposed as a data modeling approach for representing accounting transactions. However, most business...
Reflection: Ontology in Information Systems
None. 1st paragraphe : Ontology is the branch of philosophy that deals with theories about the structure and behavior...
The folklore of normalization
The practice of data processing includes creating data models in the course of system planning and requirements definition work....
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining: Developments and Directions
This article first describes the privacy concerns that arise due to data mining, especially for national security applications. Then...
ONTOMETRIC: A Method to Choose the Appropriate Ontology
In the last years, the development of ontology-based applications has increased considerably, mainly related to the semantic web. Users...
Thirty Years Later: Some Reflections on Ontological Analysis in Conceptual Modeling
The idea that ontological theories could be used to provide a theoretical basis for evaluating conceptual-modeling grammars and scripts...
