planning - designing - developing IT
Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

Physical design equivalencies in database conversion

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As relational technology becomes increasingly accepted in commercial data processing, conversion of some of the huge number of existing...

Understanding ontological engineering

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Ontological engineering has garnered increasing attention over the last few years, as researchers have recognized ontologies are not just...

Make models be assets

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Needed first is a layered UML with a small, well-defined, executable, translatable kernel that enables and supports development of...

Modeling components and frameworks with UML

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As localized objects evolve into distributed components, developers are asking that UML provide better support for component-based development using...

What UML should be

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UML is at a crossroads. Which of the proposed revisions will bring it closer to meeting user needs and...

A collaborative approach to ontology design

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Creating a general ontology characterizing the conduct of knowledge management. Read the full paper here: https://cacm.acm.org/?mobile=false

Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean

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Explosing common misuses of the subsumption relationship and the formal basis for why they are wrong.

Theoretical and practical complexity of modeling methods

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Highlighting the importance of taking into account typical usage when estimating the complexity of a systems development method.

Will UML 2.0 be agile or awkward?

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The UML sits at an architectural crossroad. Will UML 2.0 resolve the problems of UML 1.x or will it...

A form-based approach for database analysis and design

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