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

Publications

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.

The duality of database structures and design techniques

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Attempting to pair database structures with database design techniques that seem incompatible yields some fascinating concepts about the world...

Conceptually modeling windows and bounds for space and time in database constraints

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Data models in geographic information systems

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Using object-oriented database technology to model the real world. Read the full paper here: https://cacm.acm.org/?mobile=false

Understanding object-oriented: a unifying paradigm

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