Abstract. Conceptual Information Systems unfold the conceptual structure of data stored in relational databases. In the design phase of the system, conceptual hierarchies have to b...
Wikis have proved enormously successful as a means to collaborate in the creation and publication of textual information. At the same time, a large number of curated databases hav...
Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Sam Lindley, Heiko M&...
Self-organization, whereby through purely local interactions, global order and structure emerge, is studied broadly across many fields of science, economics, and engineering. We ...
Wilfried Elmenreich, Raissa D'Souza, Christian Bet...
This paper proposes the use of process models for DSS design. The kind of process models suggested are task structures and decision structures with simple graphical syntax and sem...
J. J. Zuurbier, J. N. Brinkkemper, Margriet Offere...
Software systems are typically modified in order to extend or change their functionality, improve their performance, port them to different platforms, and so on. For developers, i...
Spiros Mancoridis, Brian S. Mitchell, Yih-Farn Che...