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

Publications

Discovering Services during Service-Based System Design Using UML

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Recently, there has been a proliferation of service-based systems, i.e., software systems that are composed of autonomous services but...

Extending the UML Statecharts Notation to Model Security Aspects

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Model driven security has become an active area of research during the past decade. While many research works have...

Mapping Considerations in the Design of Schemas for the Relational Model

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The typical design process for the relational database model develops the conceptual schema and each of the external schemas...

Object analysis patterns for embedded systems

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Some of the most challenging tasks in building a software system are capturing, refining, and analyzing requirements. How well...

Modeling software measurement data

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This paper proposes a method for specifying models of software data sets in order to capture the definitions and...

QBD*: a graphical query language with recursion

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A system to query databases using diagrams as a standard user interface is proposed. The system, called Query by...

Capturing More Meaning in Databases

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Users must understand the meaning ofa database before they can intelli- gently interpret the data in it. We explore...

Generating Domain-Specific Visual Language Tools from Abstract Visual Specifications

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Domain-specific visual languages support high-level modeling for a wide range of application domains. However, building tools to support such...

A Database Architecture for Supporting Business Transactions

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The central hypothesis ofthis paper is that database design and systems de- sign in general can be simplified considerably...

A Comparison of Six UML-Based Languages for Software Process Modeling

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Describing and managing activities, resources, and constraints of software development processes is a challenging goal for many organizations. A...