Ontology-Driven Business Modelling: Improving the Conceptual Representation of the REA Ontology
Business modelling research is increasingly interested in exploring how domain ontologies can be used as reference models for business...
On the Discovery of Preferred Work Practice Through Business Process Variants
Variance in business process execution can be the result of several situations, such as disconnection between documented models and...
Towards Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes
The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description...
Approximate Queries by Relaxing Structural Constraints in GIS
In the Geographic Information System (GIS) domain the evaluation of similarity among geographical objects plays an important role. This...
Ensuring the Semantic Correctness of Complex Regions
Ensuring the semantic and topological correctness of spatial data is an important requirement in geographical information systems and spatial...
Modeling Workflow Patterns from First Principles
We propose a small set of parameterized abstract models for workflow patterns, starting from first principles for sequential and...
Heart Modeling, Computational Physiology and the IUPS Physiome Project
The Physiome Project of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) is attempting to provide a comprehensive framework for...
Conceptual Schemas and Ontologies for Database Access: Myths and Challenges
First, I will argue that well-founded conceptual modelling and ontology design is required to support intelligent information access. Then,...
Multidimensional Data Modeling for Business Process Analysis
The emerging area of business process intelligence attempts to enhance the analytical capabilities of business process management systems by...
Extending Argumentation to Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering
A key goal in safety-critical system development is to provide assurance that the critical requirements are sufficiently addressed. This...
