An Ontology-Based Product Architecture Derivation Approach
Software product line (SPL) engineering has proven to improve software quality and shorten development cycles, cost and time. In...
On the Semantics of Associations and Association Ends in UML
Association is one of the key concepts in UML that is intensively used in conceptual modeling. Unfortunately, in spite...
Knowledge, legitimacy and progress? Requirements as inscriptions in information systems development
Given the importance placed on requirements analysis for success in systems development, this paper seeks to illuminate some of...
Effects of Local Versus Global Schema Diagrams on Verification and Communication in Conceptual Data...
Mucb research in conceptual data modeling has focused on developing techniques for view integration, or combining local conceptual schetnas...
User viewpoint modelling: understanding and representing user viewpoints during requirements definition
There has been increasing awareness of the impact of the early stages of systems development on the quality of...
The Role of Similarity in the Reuse of Object-Oriented Analysis Models
Software reuse—the application of existing software artifacts in the de- velopment of a new system—has heen claimed to dramatically...
Enabling the Effective Involvement of Multiple Users: Methods and Tools for Collaborative Software Engineering
The paper presents results of ongoing research to support effective user involvement during systems development projects. The Collaborative Software...
A Method for Easing Normalization of User Views
Currently, most database management systems (DBMS) are based on the relational data model. Design methods that target relational models...
Cognitive Fit in Requirements Modeling: A Study of Object and Process Methodologies
Requirements modeling constitutes one of the most important phases of the systems development life cycle. Despite the proliferation of...
Toward Formalized Object-Oriented Management Information Systems Analysis
Object-oriented approaches have received attention in management infor- mation systems development due to the advantages over the traditional approaches...
