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

Publications

Theoretical and practical issues in evaluating the qualityof conceptual models: current state and future...

0
An international standard has now been established for evaluating the quality of software products.However there is no equivalent standard...

Multi-level ontology-based conceptual modeling

0
Since the late 1980s, there has been a growing interest in the use of foundational ontologies toprovide a sound...

Big data technologies and Management: What conceptualmodeling can do

0
The era of big data has resulted in the development and applications of technologies andmethods aimed at effectively using...

Business-driven data analytics: A conceptual modeling framework

0
The effective development of advanced data analytics solutions requires tackling challenges suchas eliciting analytical requirements, designing the machine learning...

Enhancing the semantics of UML association redefinition

0
Association redefinition is a UML construct that permits us to define an association end morespecifically in a particular context....

A UML 2.0 profile to design Association Rule mining modelsin the multidimensional conceptual modeling...

0
By using data mining techniques, the data stored in a Data Warehouse (DW) can be analyzed for the purpose...

Introductory paper: Reflections on Conceptual Modelling

0
The objective of this introductory paper is twofold. On one hand, it shows the guest editors's view about the...

What do the pictures mean? Guidelines for experimentalevaluation of representation fidelity in diagrammaticalconceptual modeling...

0
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

0
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

0
The construction of large-scale reference conceptual models is a complex engineering activity. Todevelop high-quality models, a modeler must have...