Analysis and Reuse of Plots Using Similarity and Analogy
A plot is a partially ordered set of events. Plot analysis is a relevant source of knowledge about the...
Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies
In this paper we present how to extract and describe emerging content ontology design patterns, and how to compose,...
Discovering Semantically Similar Associations (SeSA) for Complex Mappings between Conceptual Models
There is an increasing demand for discovering meaningful relationships, i.e., mappings, between conceptual models for interoperability. Current solutions have...
Quality Patterns for Conceptual Modelling
Patterns have generated a large interest during last years. In software engineering, a pattern is a reusable solution based...
An Adverbial Approach for the Formal Specification of Topological Constraints Involving Regions with Broad...
Topological integrity constraints control the topological properties of spatial objects and the validity of their topological relationships in spatial...
Automating the Extraction of Rights and Obligations for Regulatory Compliance
Government regulations are increasingly affecting the security, privacy and governance of information systems in the United States, Europe and...
Capturing Temporal Constraints in Temporal ER Models
A wide range of database applications manage information that varies over time. The conceptual modeling of databases is frequently...
Location-Based Software Modeling and Analysis: Tropos-Based Approach
The continuous growth of interest in mobile applications makes the concept of location essential to design and develop software...
Risk Evaluation for Personal Identity Management Based on Privacy Attribute Ontology
Identity providers are becoming popular for distributed authentication and distributed identity management. Users’ privacy attributes are stored at an...
Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects
A configurable process model is an integrated representation of multiple variants of a business process. It is designed to...
