The measurement of perceived ontological deficiencies of conceptualmodeling grammars
Over recent years, many scholars have studied the conceptual modeling of information sys-tems based on a theory of ontological...
Modeling events as entities in object-orientedconceptual modeling languages
Most current conceptual modeling languages and methods do not model events as entities. We arguethat, at least in object-oriented...
Design and implementation of ETL processes using BPMN and relational algebra
Extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes are used to extract data from internaland external sources of an organization, transform...
A method for the definition of integrity constraints inobject-oriented conceptual modeling languages
We propose a new method that eases the definition of integrity constraints in object-oriented conceptual modeling lan-guages. The essence...
How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?
Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and toolsused by analysts when...
A complete set of guidelines for naming UML conceptualschema elements
We focus on the problem of naming conceptual schema elements in UML, which is faced byconceptual modelers every time...
Insights into enterprise conceptual modeling
Business analysts, business architects, and solution consultants use a variety of practices andmethods in their quest to understand business....
BLOOMS: A prototype modeling language with object oriented features
The success of a Decision Support System (DSS) can be mainly attributed to the language it uses. The language...
On the impact of network latency on distributed systems design
Research in distributed database systems to date has assumed a "variable cost" model of network response time. However, network...
A Logic Modeling Language for Automated Model Construction
This paper describes PM* (read PM-star), a first-order logic based language, that is the basis of a knowledge based...
