Abstraction, Restriction, and Co-creation: Three Perspectives on Services
The recent surge in the interest of services has brought a plethora of applications of the service concept. There...
Panel: New Directions for Conceptual Modeling
This panel examines potential opportunities for conceptual modeling research in new domains.
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Panel: Modeling for the Future Internet
The Internet is a paradigmatic example of a successful system that has not been designed by using any of...
Ontology Evolution in Data Integration: Query Rewriting to the Rescue
The evolution of ontologies is an undisputed necessity in ontology-based data integration. In such systems ontologies are used as...
Object-Oriented XML Keyword Search
Existing LCA-based XML keyword search approaches are not aware of the significance of using semantics of object to improve...
A Hidden Markov Model Approach to Keyword-Based Search over Relational Databases
We present a novel method for translating keyword queries over relational databases into SQL queries with the same intended...
A Modularization Proposal for Goal-Oriented Analysis of Data Warehouses Using I-Star
The success rate of Data Warehouse (DW) development is improved by performing a requirements elicitation stage in which the...
Strategic Models for Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) promises a range of technologies for using information to ensure compliance to strategic and tactical objectives,...
Evolving Requirements in Socio-Technical Systems: Concepts and Practice
Changes in requirements are inevitable in the context of socio-technical systems (STS) that involve human organizations with their rules,...
From Pattern-Based User Interfaces to Conceptual Schemas and Back
Since the necessity to associate end-users of the future system with its specification and development steps has proven indisputable,...
