Semi-automatic Conceptual Data Modeling Using Entity and Relationship Instance Repositories
Data modelers frequently lack experience and have incomplete knowledge about the application being designed. To address this issue, we...
Adding Meaning to Your Steps (Keynote Paper)
Mobility data is becoming an important player in many application domains. Many techniques have been elaborated to extract statistical...
Impact of MDE Approaches on the Maintainability of Web Applications: An Experimental Evaluation
Model-driven Engineering (MDE) approaches are often recognized as a solution to palliate the complexity of software maintainability tasks. However,...
Best-Effort Modeling of Structured Data on the Web
Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-24606-7_3
CSRML: A Goal-Oriented Approach to Model Requirements for Collaborative Systems
A collaborative system is software which allows several users to work together and carry out collaboration, communication and coordination...
Establishing Regulatory Compliance for Software Requirements
A software system complies with a regulation if its operation is consistent with the regulation under all circumstances. The...
Making Explicit Some Implicit i* Language Decisions
The i* (i-star) framework is one of the most widely adopted modelling approaches by several communities (business modelling, requirements...
The Impact of Perceived Cognitive Effectiveness on Perceived Usefulness of Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages
Users’ perceptions and beliefs are relevant for the adoption of conceptual modeling languages in practice. This paper examines the...
Effects of External Conceptual Models and Verbal Explanations on Shared Understanding in Small Groups
Effective conceptual modeling requires a shared understanding of the concepts that are found in an application domain. Achieving such...
Sociotechnical Trust: An Architectural Approach
Current approaches in sociotechnical systems consider trust to be either cognitive—referring to actors’ mental models of each other—or technical—referring...
