An Activity Theory Approach to Modeling Dispatch-Mediated Emergency Response
Emergency response involves multiple local, state, and federal communities of responders. These communities are supported by emergency dispatch agencies...
Learning The Differences Between Ontologies and Conceptual Schemas Through Ontology-Driven Information Systems
In the traditional systems modeling approach, the modeler is required to capture a user’s view of some domain in...
How do Individuals Interpret Multiple Conceptual Models? A Theory of Combined Ontological Completeness and...
When analyzing or designing information systems, users often work with multiple conceptual models because each model articulates a different,...
The Influence of Notational Deficiencies on Process Model Comprehension
Visual process models are helpful when analyzing and improving complex organizational processes. However, the symbol sets used in different...
Information Systems as Representations: A Review of the Theory and Evidence
Representation theory proposes that the basic purpose of an information system (IS) is to faithfully represent certain real-world phenomena,...
Understanding the Role of IS and Application Domain Knowledge on Conceptual Schema Problem Solving:...
One of the most neglected areas of information systems research is the role of the domain to which researchers...
Representing Crowd Knowledge: Guidelines for Conceptual Modeling of User-generated Content
Organizations’ increasing reliance on externally produced information, such as online user-generated content (UGC) and crowdsourcing, challenges common assumptions about...
Analysis of Competing Data Structures: Does Ontological Clarity Produce Better End User Query Performance...
End users respond to stakeholders' information requests by using query tools to retrieve information from their organizations’ data stores....
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...
