Force-directed algorithms have been developed over the last 50 years and used in many
application fields, including information visualisation, biological network visualisation …

In recent years, there has been a growth in the use of reference conceptual models to
capture information about complex and critical domains. However, as the complexity of …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of reference conceptual models
to capture information about complex and sensitive business domains (eg, finance …

The success of a software project highly depends on how well the project is managed. This
includes crucial activities such as estimating the effort required to develop the software …

Legacy systems and their associated data models often evolve into large, monolithic
artifacts. This threatens comprehensibility and maintainability by human beings. Breaking …

The majority of practitioners express software requirements using natural text notations such
as user stories. Despite the readability of text, it is hard for people to build an accurate …

One of the main tasks during the early steps of a data warehouse project is the identification
of the appropriate transformations and the specification of inter-schema map**s from the …

Fundamental decisions are made in the early phases of software development. The typical
outcomes of these phases are models of different kinds, such as architectural models, data …

Exploratory search is an information seeking behavior where users progressively learn
about one or more topics of interest; it departs quite radically from traditional keyword-based …

We focus on the problem of filtering a fragment of the knowledge contained in a large
conceptual schema. The problem appears in many information systems development …