Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a
representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptual modeling …

Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the identification of the goals to be
achieved by the envisioned system, the operationalization of such goals into services and …

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the issue of trust in AI emerges as a paramount
societal concern. Despite increased attention of researchers, the topic remains fragmented …

Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering presents a systematic and pragmatic
approach tobuilding quality into'software systems. Systems must exhibit software quality …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

It is now more than fifty years since the first paper on formal specifications of an information
system was published by Young and Kent. Even if the term “conceptual model” was not used …

32 January 1999/Vol. 42, No. 1 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM tice of systems analysis
was characterized 10 years ago by a mixed bag of isolated modeling techniques (data flow …

The rapid proliferation of online content producing and sharing technologies resulted in an
explosion of user-generated content (UGC), which now extends to scientific data. Citizen …

User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a valuable organizational resource, as it is seen
in many cases as a way to make more information available for analysis. To make effective …

Formal specifications have been a focus of software engineering research for many years
and have been applied in a wide variety of settings. Their industrial use is still limited but has …