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...
Unravelling Is-a Structures
Is~a relationships are widely recognized as conveying important information for database design. Although these relationships are implicitly hierarchical in...
Diagrammatic Attention Management and the Effect of Conceptual Model Structure on Cardinality Validation
Diagrams are frequently used to document various components of information systems, from the procedures established for user-
Extending Classification Principles from Information Modeling to Other Disciplines
Classifying phenomena is a central aspect of cognition. Similarly, specifying classes of interest is a central aspect of information...
More Enduring Questions in Cognitive IS Research
In the April 2012 issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Michael Davern, Teresa Shaft, and...
Variations in Conceptual Modeling: Classification and Ontological Analysis
Conceptual models are aimed at providing formal representations of a domain. They are mainly used for the purpose of...
Ontological Clarity, Cognitive Engagement, and Conceptual Model Quality Evaluation: An Experimental Investigation
When analysts build information systems, they document their understanding of users’ work domains via conceptual models. Once a model...
An Ontological Analysis of Use Case Modeling Grammar
Use case modeling is a popular technique for representing the functional requirements of an information system. The simple graphical...
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Representing Property Precedence on the Comprehension of...
Conceptual modeling is the process of using a grammar to construct abstractions of relevant phenomena in a domain. The...
Rethinking the Meaning of Identifiers in Information Infrastructures
Identifiers — such as personal identification numbers, student numbers, and license numbers — are used for identifying individual objects...
