Tangible Modelling to Elicit Domain Knowledge: An Experiment and Focus Group
Conceptual models represent social and technical aspects of the world relevant to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders....
The REA Accounting Model: Enhancing Understandability and Applicability
The REA accounting model developed by McCarthy conceptualizes the economic logic of the double-entry bookkeeping without referring to debits,...
A Schema-Less Data Model for the Web
To extract and represent domain-independent web scale data, we introduce a schema-less and self-describing data model called Object-oriented Web...
Taming Software Variability: Ontological Foundations of Variability Mechanisms
Variability mechanisms are techniques applied to adapt software product line (SPL) artifacts to the context of particular products, promoting...
An Analysis and Characterisation of Publicly Available Conceptual Models
Multiple conceptual data modelling languages exist, with newer version typically having more features to model the universe of discourse...
Personalized Knowledge Visualization in Twitter
In recent years, Twitter has been playing an essential role in broadcasting real-time news and useful information. Many commercial...
An Extended ER Algebra to Support Semantically Richer Queries in ERDBMS
In this paper we present the foundations for a semantically rich main-memory DBMS based on the entity-relationship data model....
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Crowd-Consensus Modeling and Evaluation
In this paper, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to support modeling and consensus management in collective crowdsourcing applications/problems. We...
Enhancing Entity-Relationship Schemata for Conceptual Database Structure Models
The paper aims at development of well-founded notions of database structure models that are specified in entity-relationship modelling languages....
Principles for Modeling User-Generated Content
The increasing reliance of organizations on externally produced information, such as online user-generated content (UGC), challenges the common assumption...
