From Business Intelligence to Semantic Data Stream Management
The Semantic Web technologies are being increasingly used for exploiting relations between data. In addition, new tendencies of real-time...
Understandability of Goal Concepts by Requirements Engineering Experts
ARMOR is a graphical language for modeling business goals and enterprise architectures. In previous work we have identified problems...
On the Definition of Self-service Systems
Changing requirements are common in today’s organizations, and have been a central concern in Requirements Engineering (RE). Over time,...
The REA Accounting Model: Enhancing Understandability and Applicability
The REA accounting model developed by McCarthy conceptualizes the economic logic of the double-entry bookkeeping without referring to debits,...
A Schema-Less Data Model for the Web
To extract and represent domain-independent web scale data, we introduce a schema-less and self-describing data model called Object-oriented Web...
Taming Software Variability: Ontological Foundations of Variability Mechanisms
Variability mechanisms are techniques applied to adapt software product line (SPL) artifacts to the context of particular products, promoting...
An Analysis and Characterisation of Publicly Available Conceptual Models
Multiple conceptual data modelling languages exist, with newer version typically having more features to model the universe of discourse...
Personalized Knowledge Visualization in Twitter
In recent years, Twitter has been playing an essential role in broadcasting real-time news and useful information. Many commercial...
An Extended ER Algebra to Support Semantically Richer Queries in ERDBMS
In this paper we present the foundations for a semantically rich main-memory DBMS based on the entity-relationship data model....
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Crowd-Consensus Modeling and Evaluation
In this paper, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to support modeling and consensus management in collective crowdsourcing applications/problems. We...
