Conceptualizing Data in Multinational Enterprises: Model Design and Application
Collaboration and coordination within multinational enterprises need unambiguous semantics of data across business units, legal contexts, cultures etc. Therefore...
Ontology of Dynamic Entities
This paper describes “dynamic business entities”, ontological classes that dynamically acquire and lose properties and relationships as a function...
A Metadata-based Approach to Leveraging the Information Supply of Business Intelligence Systems
Ensuring adequate information provision continues to be a key challenge of corporate decision making and the usage of business...
A Supervised Method for Lexical Annotation of Schema Labels Based on Wikipedia
Lexical annotation is the process of explicit assignment of one or more meanings to a term w.r.t. a sense...
Optimising Schema Evolution Operation Sequences in Object Databases for Data Evolution
We propose an approach to optimising schema evolution operation sequences in object databases. The approach separates operations that add...
Capturing Variability of Law with Nómos 2
Regulatory compliance is increasingly viewed as an essential element of requirements engineering. Laws, but also regulations and policies, frame...
Deriving Variability Patterns in Software Product Lines by Ontological Considerations
Variability modeling is widely used in software product line engineering to support reusability. Specifically, it is used in the...
A Preference-Aware Query Model for Data Web Services
Data Mashup is a special class of applications mashup that combines data elements from multiple data sources (that are...
User Feedback Based Query Refinement by Exploiting Skyline Operator
This paper presents FlexIQ, a framework for feedback based query refinement. In FlexIQ, feedback is used to discover the...
A NFR-Based Framework for User-Centered Adaptation
Pervasive environments support users’ daily routines in an invisible and unobtrusive way. To do so, they include a technical...
