planning - designing - developing IT
Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

A process ontology based approach to easing semantic ambiguity in business process modeling

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Business process modeling continues to increase in complexity, due, in part, to the dynamic business contexts and complicated domain...

Learning non-taxonomic relationships from web documents for domain ontology construction

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In recent years, much effort has been put in ontology learning. However, the knowledge acquisition process is typically focused...

An abductive, linguistic approach to model retrieval

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In the early phases of requirements engineering, inspecting previously constructed conceptual models is important both for reusing specifications and...

Representation of conceptual ETL designs in natural language using Semantic Web technology

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Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes constitute the back stage of Data Warehouse architectures. Several studies characterize the ETL design as a...

Linguistically based requirements engineering – The NIBA-project

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Usually, the development of an information system (or some part of it) starts with requirement elicitation followed by a...

Reusing ontologies on the Semantic Web: A feasibility study

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Technologies for the efficient and effective reuse of ontological knowledge are one of the key success factors for the...

On the representation of roles in object-oriented and conceptual modelling

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The duality of objects and relationships is so deeply embedded in our thinking that almost all modelling languages include...

Using ontologies with UML class-based modeling: The TwoUse approach

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UML class-based models and OWL ontologies constitute modeling approaches with different strengths and weaknesses that make them appropriate for...

Deriving static and dynamic concepts from software requirements using sophisticated tagging

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Natural language requirements specifications form the basis for the subsequent phase of the information system development process, namely the...

English, Chinese and ER diagrams

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This paper examines the similarities and correspondence between the Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) technique and the constructs of two natural...