The goal of this article is to formalize Object Role Modeling (ORM) using the DLR description logic. This would enable automated reasoning on the formal properties of ORM diagrams,...
The paper elaborates on the theoretical foundation of Information System understood as a field of design science. Revisiting Hevner’s et al. seminal paper [44], we elaborate on ...
Schemata have played important roles in logic since Aristotle's Prior Analytics. The syllogistic figures and moods can be taken to be argument schemata as can the rules of the...
Workflow models have been used and refined for years to execute processes within organisations. To deal with collaborative processes (choreographies) these internal workflow model...
Traditional static type systems are very effective for verifying basic interface specifications, but are somewhat limited in the kinds specificationsthey support. Dynamically-chec...