Using Contextual Goal Models for Constructing Situational Methods
Situation and intention are two fundamental notions in situational method engineering (SME). They are used to assess the context...
Towards Quality Analysis for Document Oriented Bases
Document-oriented bases allow high flexibility in data representation which facilitates a rapid development of applications and enables many possibilities...
Multi-perspective Comparison of Business Process Variants Based on Event Logs
A process variant represents a collection of cases with certain shared characteristics, e.g. cases that exhibit certain levels of...
A Holistic Approach for Soundness Verification of Decision-Aware Process Models
The last decade has witnessed an increasing transformation in the design, engineering, and mining of processes, moving from a...
Managing Polyglot Systems Metadata with Hypergraphs
A single type of data store can hardly fulfill every end-user requirements in the NoSQL world. Therefore, polyglot systems...
Recent Trends of Big Data Platforms and Applications
Big data refers to large amounts of data beyond acceptable limits of commonly-used data collection, storage, management, and analysis...
Conceptual Modeling on Tencent’s Distributed Database Systems
Tencent is the largest Internet service provider in China. Typical services include WeChat, games, payment, cloud storage and computing....
A Reference Framework for Conceptual Modeling
With decades of contributions and applications, conceptual modeling is very well-recognized in information systems engineering. However, the importance and...
Empirical Comparison of Model Consistency Between Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling and Traditional Conceptual Modeling
This paper conducts an empirical study that explores the differences between adopting a traditional conceptual modeling (TCM) technique and...
A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Deep Exploration of Business Process Behavior
Process mining serves for gaining insights into business process behavior based on event logs. These techniques are typically limited...