A framework for model integration and holistic modelling of socio-technical systems
This paper presents a layered framework for the purposes of integrating different socio-technical systems (STS) models and perspectives into...
Repeated use of process models: The impact of artifact, technological, and individual factors
Business process modeling has received a lot of attention from practitioners and researchers alike. Organizations make significant investments into...
On modeling processes
While other work in model management has looked at models as static objects to be administered in database-like fashion,...
Improving cognitive effectiveness of business process diagrams with opacity-driven graphical highlights
In order to facilitate the communication between the stakeholders, business process diagrams must be easy to understand. This is...
A practical application of our MDD approach for modeling secure XML data warehouses
Data warehouses are systems that provide useful information to support the decision making process, thus improving organizations' business processes....
A study on the effects of routing symbol design on process model comprehension
Process modeling grammars are used to create models of business processes. In this paper, we discuss how different routing...
An Entity-Relationship Approach to Decision Support and Expert Systems
There has been an increasing interest in integrating decision support systems and expert systems to provide decision makers a...
Adding Temporal Constraints to XML Schema
If past versions of XML documents are retained, what of the various integrity constraints defined in XML Schema on...
A UML-based data warehouse design method
Data warehouses are a major component of data-driven decision support systems (DSS). They rely on multidimensional models. The latter...
Formal Foundations for Object-Oriented Data Modeling
Axiomatic definition of the basic structure, called a class dictionary graph, is given, used by object-oriented designers and programmers...
