The design and development of process-aware information systems is often supported by
specifying requirements as business process models. Although this approach is generally …

Farming systems are complex structures with several dimensions interacting in a dynamic
and continuous manner around farmers' management strategies. This complexity peaks in …

The specification of a software system must include all relevant static and dynamic aspects
of the domain. Dynamic aspects are usually specified by means of a behavioral schema …

A conceptual schema specifies the relevant information about the domain and how this
information changes as a result of the execution of operations. The purpose of reasoning on …

The current lack of a standard methodology for data warehouse design has led to have
many possible lifecycles. In some of them, the validation of the data warehouse conceptual …

Class diagrams must be complemented with a set of system operations that describes how
users can modify and evolve the system state. To be useful, such a set must be complete (ie …

An important activity in requirements engineering is validation, which is the process of
checking whether a model correctly represents a piece of reality and the users' …

In semi-arid regions, agricultural production systems depend greatly on irrigation and
encounter increasing challenges (depletion of natural resources, high volatility in market …

To ensure the quality of an information system, it is essential that the conceptual schema that
represents the knowledge about its domain and the functions it has to perform is …

Active rules are a widely diffused extension of modern database technology, presently
available on most commercial DBMS platforms and research prototypes. Recently, the role …