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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

An MDA Approach and QVT Transformations for the Integrated Development of Goal-Oriented Data Warehouses...

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To customize a data warehouse, many organizations develop concrete data marts focused on a particular department or business process....

Research Review: A Systematic Literature Review on the Quality of UML Models

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The quality of conceptual models directly affects the quality of the understanding of the application domain and the quality...

A Conceptual Modeling Personalization Framework for OLAP

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OLAP(On-lineAnalyticalProcessing)technologiesrely onmultidimensionalmodelsto provide decisionmakers with appropriate structures allowing them to intuitively analyze data. However, these multidimensional models may be...

Using Ontology Languages for Conceptual Modeling

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Conceptual models are used to support understanding of and communication about application domains in information systems development. Such models...

Representing Classes of Things and Properties in General in Conceptual Modelling: An Empirical Evaluation

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How classes of things and properties in general should be represented in conceptual models is a fundamental issue. For...

Assigning ontological Meaning to Workflow Nets

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A common way to represent organizational domains is the use of business process models. A Workflow-net (WF-net) is an...

Understanding Business Domain Models: The Effect of Recognizing Resource-Event-Agent Conceptual Modeling Structures

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In this paper, the author investigates the effect on understanding of using business domain models that are constructed with...

Applying Learner-Centered Design Principles to UML Sequence Diagrams

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The Unified Modeling Language has been shown to be complex and difficult to learn. The difficulty of learning to build the individual diagrams...

Semantics of the MibML Conceptual Modeling Grammar: An Ontological Analysis Using the Bunge-Wang-Weber Framework

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A conceptual modeling grammar should be based on the theory of ontology and possess clear ontological semantics to represent...

Dynamic semantics of UML state machines: A metamodeling perspective

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A clear understanding of the dynamic semantics of UML State Machines is essential for a large and varied audience such as...