Form and Substance in Physical Database Design: An Empirical Study
As with many complex design problems, physical database design is difficult, ill-structured, and highly human intensive. In order to...
Towards the construction of workflow‐suitable conceptual modelling techniques
Despite their high-level and graphical nature, workflow specificationsrequire a significant amount of implementation detail Ð for example applicationprogramming interface,...
The realities of database design: an essay on the sociology, semiology and pedagogy of...
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The role of modelling in achieving information systems success: UML to the rescue?
Much computer science literature addresses the mechanics of theUnified Modelling Language (UML) and requirements modelling, but little researchhas addressed...
On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a...
A core activity in information systems development involves building a conceptual model of the domain that an information system...
Towards a cognitive foundation for knowledge representation
Knowledge engineering, knowledge management and conceptual mod-elling are concerned with representing knowledge of business and organizationaldomains. These research...
The IQ of the Crowd: Understanding and Improving Information Quality in Structured User-Generated Content
User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a valuable organizational resource, as it is seen in many cases as a way...
An approach to object identification, selection and specification in object‐oriented analysis
When using current object-oriented methods in the development of computer-based information systems, problems frequently arise in the identification and...
How Semantics and Pragmatics Interact in Understanding Conceptual Models
Underlying the design of any information system is an explicit or implicit conceptual model of the domain that the...
Semantic database prototypes
This paper describes a technique for improving the semantic consensus of conceptual database designs. Semantic consensus is a condition...
