Reification and Truthmaking Patterns
Reification is a standard technique in conceptual modeling, which consists of including in the domain of discourse entities that...
Data Quality Evaluation in Document Oriented Data Stores
Data quality management in document oriented data stores has not been deeply explored yet, presenting many challenges that arise...
Genomic Data Management in Big Data Environments: The Colorectal Cancer Case
If there is a domain where data management becomes an intensive Big Data issue, it is the genomic domain,...
Domain Specific Models as System Links
Digital Ecosystems consist of a variety of interlinked subsystems. This paper presents a flexible approach to define the links...
Towards Conceptual Models for Machine Learning Computations
We make the case for conceptual models that give the human designer full visibility and control over key aspects...
The Simple Enterprise Architecture Framework: Giving Alignment to IT Decisions
Context: Enterprise Architecture seeks to align organizational objectives with decisions associated to people, processes, information and technology. Different frameworks...
Towards an Empirical Evaluation of Imperative and Declarative Process Mining
Process modelling notations fall in two broad categories: declarative notations, which specify the rules governing a process; and imperative...
Artifact Sampling in Experimental Conceptual Modeling Research
Experimental research in conceptual modeling typically involves comparing grammars or variations within a grammar, where differences between experimental groups...
Design of an Empirical Study for Evaluating an Automatic Layout Tool
Generating meaningful layout of iStar models is a challenging task, which currently requires significant manual efforts. However, it is...
A Prototype for Generating Meaningful Layout of iStar Models
Being able to model and analyze social dependencies is one of the most important feature of iStar modeling language....
