NALDO: From natural language definitions to OWL expressions
Domain ontologies are pivotal for Semantic Web applications. The richness of an ontology goes in hand with its usefulness...
Formal justification in object-oriented modelling: A linguistic approach
When software engineers set out to build a system, they usually have the informal idea that there is a...
Ensuring the canonicity of process models
Process models play an important role for specifying requirements of business-related software. However, the usefulness of process models is...
REERM: Reenhancing the entity–relationship model
The entity–relationship model (ERM) remains one of the most widely used SW Engineering techniques. Much research effort has focused...
Digital factory system for dynamic manufacturing network supporting networked collaborative product development
During the last years, important research investments have been made by Airbus Group Innovations for the establishment of sustainable...
Constraint modelling using a conceptual prototyping language
A conceptual language (CPL) is proposed, derived from natural language theory, for specifying both the static and dynamic component...
A transition logic for schemata conflicts
Conflict detection and analysis are of high importance, e.g., when integrating conceptual schemata, such as UML-Specifications, or analysing goal-fulfilment...
Design and implementation of derivation rules in information systems
In contrast to tables and integrity constraints, database triggers have no direct equivalent in conceptual models. To enable CASE...
WordNet++: A lexicon for the Color-X-method
In this article we discuss what kind of information can be obtained from WordNet and what kind of information should...
Using NNF to transform conceptual data models to object-oriented database designs
More work is needed on devising practical, but theoretically well-founded procedures for doing object-oriented database (OODB) design . Design...
