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

Publications

Near Real-Time Collaborative Conceptual Modeling on the Web

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Collaboration during the creation of conceptual models is an integral pillar of design processes in many disciplines. Synchronous collaboration,...

Logical Design Patterns for Information System Development Problems

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Design theories investigate prescriptive and descriptive elements of the activity of design. Central to the descriptive realm are abstract...

Dynamic Capabilities for Sustainable Enterprise IT – A Modeling Framework

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A key consideration of researchers and practitioners alike in the field of information systems engineering is the co-development of...

Modeling Stories for Conceptual Model Assessment

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Conceptual modeling is a challenging activity and assessing the quality of conceptual models is key to ensure that they...

Improving Model Quality Through Foundational Ontologies: Two Contrasting Approaches to the Representation of Roles

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Several foundational ontologies have been developed recently. We examine two of these from the point of view of their...

Challenges in Teaching Conceptual Modeling for Systems Architecting

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Systems architecting requires systems architects that are able to understand, reason, communicate and make decisions about system specification and...

Effects of Simulation on Novices’ Understanding of the Concept of Inheritance in Conceptual Modeling

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In this paper we present our experience in the experimental development and use of simulation instrument for learning object-oriented...

Reuse of Simulated Cases in Teaching Enterprise Modelling

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Case-based teaching/learning is widely used in Information Systems (IS) education in general, and in teaching/learning modeling, in particular. A...

The Importance of Teaching Systematic Analysis for Conceptual Models: An Experience Report

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In this paper, we report on our experience in teaching conceptual modeling at a master-level course at the University...

Why Philosophize; Why not Just Model?

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Conceptual modelling relies on the availability of good quality modelling languages (MLs). However, many of these MLs have not...