Mining Goal Refinement Patterns: Distilling Know-How from Data
Goal models play an important role by providing a hierarchic representation of stakeholder intent, and by providing a representation...
Contextual Keys
Much work has been done on extending the relational model of data to encompass incomplete information. In particular, a...
Goal-Oriented Regulatory Intelligence: How Can Watson Analytics Help?
Regulations are introduced by governments to ensure the well-being, safety, and other societal needs of citizens and enterprises. Governments...
A Comprehensive Formal Theory for Multi-level Conceptual Modeling
Multi-level modeling extends the conventional two-level classification scheme to deal with subject domains in which classes are also considered...
An Alternative Approach to Metainformation Conceptualisation and Use
The growing needs to analyse and interpret large amounts of complex information has generalised the use of information about...
Alignment-Based Trace Clustering
A novel method to cluster event log traces is presented in this paper. In contrast to the approaches in...
Schema Evolution and Foreign Keys: Birth, Eviction, Change and Absence
In this paper, we focus on the study of the evolution of foreign keys in the broader context of...
The Conceptual Modelling of Dynamic Teams for Autonomous Systems
The concept of a ‘team’ is key in multi-agent decision-making applications such as for combat operations and disaster management....
Conceptual Modelling of Autonomous Multi-cloud Interaction with Reflective Semantics
Distributed systems that exploit software services from multiple clouds provide opportunities for software systems that address problems associated with...
Querying Graph Databases: What Do Graph Patterns Mean?
Querying graph databases often amounts to some form of graph pattern matching. Finding (sub-)graphs isomorphic to a given graph...
