From Structure-Based to Semantics-Based: Towards Effective XML Keyword Search
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
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
The complexity of business processes and the data volume of processed transactions increase with the ongoing integration of information...
Store Review Spammer Detection Based on Review Relationship
Reviews and comments play important role in online shopping. It can help people getting more information about stores and...
Cost-Informed Operational Process Support
The ability to steer business operations in alignment with the true origins of costs, and to be informed about...
Big Data—Conceptual Modeling to the Rescue
Big data is characterized by volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. We should expect conceptual modeling to provide some answers...
Automating the Adaptation of Evolving Data-Intensive Ecosystems
Data-intensive ecosystems are conglomerations of data repositories surrounded by applications that depend on them for their operation. To support...
What’s Up in Business Intelligence? A Contextual and Knowledge-Based Perspective
The explosive growth in the amount of data poses challenges in analyzing large data sets and retrieving relevant information...
sonSchema: A Conceptual Schema for Social Networks
sonSQL is a MySQL variant that aims to be the default database system for social network data. It uses...
Modeling and Reasoning with Decision-Theoretic Goals
Goal models have found important applications in Requirements Engineering as models that relate stakeholder requirements with system or human...