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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

On the Ontological Quality and Logical Quality of Conceptual-Modeling Grammars: The Need for a...

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A core activity in information systems development involves building a conceptual model of the domain that an information system...

Unravelling Is-a Structures

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Is~a relationships are widely recognized as conveying important information for database design. Although these relationships are implicitly hierarchical in...

Guidelines for Empirical Evaluations of Conceptual Modeling Grammars

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Conceptual modeling grammars are used to create scripts that represent someone’s perception, or some group’s negotiated perception, of domain...

Learning The Differences Between Ontologies and Conceptual Schemas Through Ontology-Driven Information Systems

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In the traditional systems modeling approach, the modeler is required to capture a user’s view of some domain in...

An Activity Theory Approach to Modeling Dispatch-Mediated Emergency Response

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Emergency response involves multiple local, state, and federal communities of responders. These communities are supported by emergency dispatch agencies...

An Experimental Study of the Effects of Representing Property Precedence on the Comprehension of...

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Conceptual modeling is the process of using a grammar to construct abstractions of relevant phenomena in a domain. The...

The Influence of Notational Deficiencies on Process Model Comprehension

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Visual process models are helpful when analyzing and improving complex organizational processes. However, the symbol sets used in different...

The Effects of Decomposition Quality and Multiple Forms of Information on Novices’ Understanding of...

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Individuals can often use conceptual models to learn about the business domain to be supported by an information system....

Diagrammatic Attention Management and the Effect of Conceptual Model Structure on Cardinality Validation

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Diagrams are frequently used to document various components of information systems, from the procedures established for user-

Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in Information Infrastructures

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Identifiers — such as personal identification numbers, student numbers, and license numbers — are used for identifying individual objects...