The ISAC-driven transition between requirements analysis and ER conceptual modelling
The principles of transitions and consequently integration between requirements analysis and conceptual modelling accomplished by ISACs change analysis and...
Contextualization as an independent abstraction mechanism for conceptual modeling
The notion of context appears in computer science, as well as in several other disciplines, in various forms. In...
Towards a complete conceptual model: Petri nets and entity-relationship diagrams
The paper shows how entity-relationship (E-R) diagrams and high-level Petri nets can system-atically be synthesized into rigorous, yet graphic...
Linked Open Models: Extending Linked Open Data with conceptual model information
As the uptake of the Semantic Web vision has been relatively slow, a strategy based on pragmatic steps is...
From conceptual models to schemata: An object-process-based data warehouse construction method
Data warehouse modeling is a complex task, which involves knowledge of business processes of the domain of discourse, understanding...
Formalising and animating multiple instances in BPMN collaborations
The increasing adoption of modelling methods contributes to a better understanding of the flow of processes, from the internal...
A scenario-driven approach to trace dependency analysis
Software development artifacts-such as model descriptions, diagrammatic languages, abstract (formal) specifications, and source code-are highly interrelated where changes in...
Developing secure data warehouses with a UML extension
Data Warehouses (DWs), Multidimensional (MD) Databases, and On-Line Analytical Processing Applications are used as a very powerful mechanism for...
On object systems and behavioral inheritance
We consider state-based behavior in object-oriented analysis and design, as it arises, for example, in specifying behavior in the...
A modular approach to the specification and management of time duration constraints in BPMN
The modeling and management of business processes deals with temporal aspects both in the inherent representation of activity coordination...
