planning - designing - developing IT
Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

Toward an Ontology-Driven Unifying Metamodel for UML Class Diagrams, EER, and ORM2

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Software compatibility and application integration can be achieved using their respective conceptual data models. However, each model may be...

Towards Ontological Foundations for the Conceptual Modeling of Events

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of foundational ontologies, i.e., formal ontological theories...

Baquara: A Holistic Ontological Framework for Movement Analysis Using Linked Data

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Movement understanding frequently requires further information and knowledge than what can be obtained from bare spatio-temporal traces. Despite recent...

From Structure-Based to Semantics-Based: Towards Effective XML Keyword Search

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Existing XML keyword search approaches can be categorized into tree-based search and graph-based search. Both of them are structure-based...

Combining Personalization and Groupization to Enhance Web Search

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To improve retrieval effectiveness, personalized search engines adjust the search results according to the user’s interest profile. Most of...

Colored Petri Nets for Integrating the Data Perspective in Process Audits

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The complexity of business processes and the data volume of processed transactions increase with the ongoing integration of information...

Former Students’ Perception of Improvement Potential of Conceptual Modeling in Practice

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Several authors have pointed out a significant gap between Conceptual Modeling (CM) theory and practice. It is then natural...

Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance

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This paper addresses the conceptual modeling of a person’s daily activities, i.e. units of purposeful individual behavior. An integrated...

Empirical Evaluation of the Quality of Conceptual Models Based on User Perceptions: A Case...

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Today, many companies design and maintain a vast amount of conceptual models. It has been also observed that such...

Minimizing Human Effort in Reconciling Match Networks

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Schema and ontology matching is a process of establishing correspondences between schema attributes and ontology concepts, for the purpose...