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convergence between workflow management and databases is occurring. In order to make such convergence effective, however, it is required to improve and strengthen the specification of workflows at the conceptual level, by formalizing within a unique model their "internal behavior" (e.g. interaction

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conceptual model is (a) customized for the tracing of inter-attribute relationships and the respective ETL activities in the early stages of a data warehouse project; (b) enriched with a 'palette' of a set of frequently used ETL activities, like the assignment of surrogate keys, the check for null

Abstract. Failures in information systems development have frequently been attributed to the application of insufficient or faulty information systems development methods. Some of these methods are concerned with the creation of conceptual models, which are used for multiple purposes throughout

Conceptual modeling is the abstraction of a simulation model from the real world system that is being modeled; in other words, choosing what to model, and what not to model. This is generally agreed to be the most difficult, least understood and most important task to be carried out in a simulation

conceptually and strategically, the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ. We then go beyond this largely pedagogical function and delineate the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena, including control and stress

Conceptual modelling deals with the process of building or interpreting a conceptual model. Stakeholders use the resulting model to reason and communicate about a domain in order to improve their common understanding of it. From this perspective, conceptual modelling and conceptual models

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the explicit introduction of time modelling in a conceptual schema. This has come about as as a result of the relaisation that realisation that the development of large information systems is becoming increasingly more difficult as user

and graphics fields have been developing almost entirely independently—this despite the fact that, at least conceptually, the two disciplines are bound in a mutually converse relationship. Graphics, the direct problem, involves the synthesis of images from object models, whereas vision, the inverse problem