Variable set semantics for keyed generalized sketches:formal semantics for object identity and abstract syntaxfor...
We introduce a mathematical framework where a formal semantics for object identity can be built ir-respectively to computer related...
Natural language processing-enhanced extraction of SBVR businessvocabularies and business rules from UML use case...
Discovery, specification and proper representation of various aspects of business knowledgeplays crucial part in model-driven information systems engineering, especially...
The impact of linguistics on conceptual models: consistency and understandability
This paper describes a vision in which linguistic knowledge and theories are introduced into conceptual modeling, and it sums...
Ontologies for conceptual modeling: their creation, use,and management
Although ontologies have been proposed as an important and natural means of representing real worldknowledge for the development of...
Conceptual modelling of web information systems
This paper presents the conceptual modelling parts of a methodology for the design of large-scale data-intensive web information systems...
Conceptual models for coordinating the design of user workwith the design of information systems
The design of an information system (IS) has many consequences for the work of its users. We describe a...
Verification of conceptual models based on linguistic knowledge
As conceptual models reflect people's perception of real-world phenomena, they are closely tied to the way people describe and...
What do the pictures mean? Guidelines for experimentalevaluation of representation fidelity in diagrammaticalconceptual modeling...
It is important to articulate the objectives and underlying assumptions behind a growing body of exper-imental research in conceptual...
When conceptual model meets grammar: A dual approach to XMLdata modeling
In this paper we introduce a novel approach to conceptual modeling for XML schemas. Com-pared to other approaches, it...
Ontological anti-patterns: empirically uncovered error-pronestructures in ontology-driven conceptual models
The construction of large-scale reference conceptual models is a complex engineering activity. Todevelop high-quality models, a modeler must have...