From Entities and Relationships to Social Actors and Dependencies
Modeling social settings is becoming an increasingly important activity in software development and other conceptual modeling applications. In this...
A Pragmatic Method for the Integration of Higher-Order Entity-Relationship Schemata
One of the challenges in practical information system development is to find suitable methods for schema integration. Schema integration...
Explicit Modeling of the Semantics of Large Multi-layered Object-Oriented Databases
Description-driven systems based on meta-objects are an increasingly popular way to handle complexity in large-scale object- oriented database applications....
Business Modelling Is Not Process Modelling
Innovative e-business projects start with a design of the e-business model. We often encounter the view, in research as...
Agent-Oriented Enterprise Modeling Based on Business Rules
Business rules are statements that express (certain parts of) a business policy, defining business terms and defining or constraining...
Modeling Electronic Workflow Markets
Market-based inter-organizational workflow management integrates workflow management and business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce; it is a novel approach to workflow management...
A Three-Layer Model for Workflow Semantic Recovery in an Object-Oriented Environment
There have been numerous attempts to provide semantic recovery workflow support in order to maintain atomicity and consistency. However,...
Building Multi-device, Content-Centric Applications Using WebML and the W3I3 Tool Suite
In the forthcoming years, two factors will jeopardize the deployment of Web applications: supporting multi-device outputs and one-to-one personalization....
Recognizing Ontology-Applicable Multiple-Record Web Documents
Automatically recognizing which Web documents are “of interest” for some specified application is non-trivial. As a step toward solving...
Abstraction and Reuse Mechanisms in Web Application Models
In this paper we analyze different abstraction and reuse mechanisms that should be used in Web applications to improve...
