Modeling Citizen-Centric Services in Smart Cities
Much research about large cities has focused on policy-level action for concerns such as infrastructure, basic amenities and education,...
A Semantic Approach to Keyword Search over Relational Databases
Research in relational keyword search has been focused on the efficient computation of results as well as strategies to...
Representing and Elaborating Quality Requirements: The QRA Approach
This paper presents the quality requirements analysis ( QRA ) approach to requirements modeling. The QRA...
Is Traditional Conceptual Modeling Becoming Obsolete?
Traditionally, the research and practice of conceptual modeling assumed relevant information about a domain is determined in advance to...
Cognitive Mechanisms of Conceptual Modelling
Conceptual modelling involves many higher order cognitive processes, such as relational reasoning and abstraction, which are based on integration...
A Semantic Analysis of Shared References
Models, according to common understanding, facilitate to make and share references. A reference is a deictic activity whose point...
Are Conceptual Models Concept Models?
The conceptual modelling community not only has no clear, general agreement on what its models model, it also has...
Visual Modeling of Business Process Compliance Rules with the Support of Multiple Perspectives
A fundamental challenge for any process-aware information system is to ensure compliance of modeled and executed business processes with...
Deciding Data Object Relevance for Business Process Model Abstraction
Business process model abstraction received considerable attention lately. So far, business process model abstraction is mainly based on control...
Matching Business Process Models Using Positional Passage-Based Language Models
Business operations are often documented by business process models. Use cases such as system validation and process harmonization require...
