A Conceptual Design Methodology for Fuzzy Relational Databases
Computer applications in the nontraditional area have put requirements on conceptual data modeling. Some conceptual data models, being the tools of design databases, have been...
Dimensions of UML Diagram Use: A Survey of Practitioners
The UML is an industry standard for object-oriented software engineering. However, there is little empirical evidence on how UML is used. This article...
A Decade and More of UML: An Overview of UML Semantic and Structural Issues...
More than 10 years ago in 1997, three modeling advocates brought together their own distinct techniques to forge UML (Unified Modeling Language), and...
Use Case Diagrams in Support of Use Case Modeling: Deriving Understanding from the Picture
Use case modeling in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a popular text-based tool for systems analysis and design. Use cases can be...
Enhancing UML Models: A Domain Analysis Approach
UML has been largely adopted as a standard modeling language. The emergence of UML from different modeling languages that refer to various...
Conceptual Data Modeling Patterns: Representation and Validation
The tremendous demand for software productivity has led to the idea of reuse of solutions that have worked successfully...
Physical Modeling of Data Warehouses Using UML Component and Deployment Diagrams: Design and Implementation...
Several approaches have been proposed to model different aspects of a Data Warehouse (DW) during recent years, such as...
Using Iconic Graphics in Entity-Relationship Diagrams: The Impact on Understanding
This study reports on an experiment examining the impact of iconic graphics on participants’ understanding of domains represented by...
Understanding the role of use cases in UML: A review and research agenda
A use case is a description ofa sequence of actions constituting a complete task or transaction in an application....
Human factors research on data modeling: A review of prior research, an extended framework...
This study reviews and synthesizes human factors research on conceptual data modeling. In addition to analyzing the variables used in earlier studies...
