We describe a new approach to managing information quality (IQ) in an e-Science context, by allowing scientists to define the quality characteristics that are of importance in the...
Paolo Missier, Alun D. Preece, Suzanne M. Embury, ...
Nowadays, the maturity reached by the Web engineering research community can be assessed by the myriad of web design methods that have proven successful for the specification of th...
This paper presents the Kuaba Ontology, a knowledge representation model for Design Rationale described in an ontology definition language. The representation of this model in a sp...
Adriana Pereira de Medeiros, Daniel Schwabe, Bruno...
Abstract. Schema integration is the activity of providing a unified representation of multiple data sources. The core problems in schema integration are: schema matching, i.e. the...
Matteo Magnani, Nikos Rizopoulos, Peter McBrien, D...
Abstract. Current UML Profiles for Business Process Modelling realise a narrow focus of the process, and capture the process flow on a low level of detail. They do not provide a co...
Abstract. In order to analyze the behavior of moving objects, a measure for determining the similarity of trajectories needs to be defined. Although research has been conducted th...
Abstract. In an ongoing effort to better understand the process of creating conceptual models (in particular formal ones), we present a fundamental view of the process of modeling...
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Henderik Alex Proper, Theo P...
Generalization of spatial databases consists of complicated operations including not only geometric transformations but also topological changes. The changes often result in an inc...
This paper proposes an agent-oriented meta-model that provides rigorous concepts for conducting enterprise modelling. The aim is to allow analysts to produce an enterprise model th...