Journal of Database Management articles from April 2004

Journal of Database Management archives from April 2004

Ontological analysis, evaluation and engineering of business systems analysis methods.(Editorial Preface)
April 1, 2004... Ontologies are not only a philosophical topic anymore. For more than ten years now, researchers in different streams related to Information Technology have been interested in applying sound ontological foundations to their work. An increasing...

Reflection: ontology in information systems.(Foreword)
April 1, 2004... Ontology is the branch of philosophy that deals with theories about the structure and behavior of the worlds that humans perceive. Ontologists seek to articulate the fundamental types of phenomena that exist in the world and the relationships...

ONTOMETRIC: a method to choose the appropriate ontology.
April 1, 2004... ABSTRACT In the last years, the development of ontology-based applications has increased considerably, mainly related to the semantic web. Users currently looking for ontologies in order to incorporate them into their systems, just use...

An ontology of data modelling languages: a study using a common-sense realistic ontology.
April 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Data modelling languages are used in today's information systems engineering environments. Many have a degree of hype surrounding their quality and applicability with narrow and specific justification often given in support of one...

A template for defining enterprise modelling constructs.
April 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The paper explains the need for a standard way of defining modelling constructs from different enterprise modelling languages and proposes a template for defining enterprise modelling constructs in a way that facilitates language...

An evaluation of inter-organizational workflow modeling formalisms.
April 1, 2004... ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the dynamic aspects of the UML in the context of inter-organizational workflows. Two evaluation methodologies are used. The first one is ontological and is based on the BWW (Bunge-Wand-Weber) models. The...

Applying ontologies to business and systems modelling techniques and perspectives: lessons learned.
April 1, 2004... ABSTRACT For many years in the area of business systems analysis and design, practitioners and researchers alike have been searching for some comprehensive basis on which to evaluate, compare, and engineer techniques that are promoted for...