Semantic database prototypes
This paper describes a technique for improving the semantic consensus of conceptual database designs. Semantic consensus is a condition...
Understanding Conceptual Schemas: Exploring the Role of Application and IS Domain Knowledge
Although information systems (IS) problem solving involves knowledge of both the IS and application domains, little attention has been...
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...
Improving Analysis Pattern Reuse in Conceptual Design: Augmenting Automated Processes with Supervised Learning
Conceptual design is an important, but difficult, phase of systems development. Analysis patterns can greatly benefit this phase because...
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,...
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling–A Research Agenda
Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some...
The realities of database design: an essay on the sociology, semiology and pedagogy of...
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Should Optional Properties Be Used in Conceptual Modelling? A Theory and Three Empirical Tests
An important feature of some conceptual modelling grammars is the features they provide to allow database designers to show...
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...
Are Attributes Entities? A Study of Database Designers’ Memory Structures
A longstanding debate in the data modeling literature pertains to whether the grammars used to generate conceptual schemas should...
