Ontologies play a key role in the realization of the Semantic Web. An ontology is used as an explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a given domain. When such a dom...
Turbulence is in the nature of business environments. Changes brought about because of different requirements such as social, political, technical and economic, exert pressures on ...
Application domain description precedes requirements engineering, and is the basis for the development of a software or information system that satisfies all expectations of its u...
As approaches to conceptual modeling of XML data become more popular, a need arises to reverse-engineer existing schemas to the conceptual models. They make the management of XML s...
1 Even though there has been some research on system evolution, there is no well defined vocabulary to indicate deviation of a system from desired goals. Further, there are no obje...