Information Modeling Methods and Methodologies

The purpose of this book is to disseminate the research results and best practice from researchers and practitioners interested in and working on modeling methods and methodologies. Though the need for such studies is well recognized, there is a paucity of such research in the literature. What specifically distinguishes this book is that it looks at various research domains and areas such as enterprise, process, goal, object-orientation, data, requirements, ontology, and component modeling, to provide an overview of existing approaches and best practices in these conceptually closely-related fields. *Note: This book is part of a series entitled “Advanced Topics in Database Research".

John Krogstie is currently senior researcher at SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, which is part of Scandinavia’s largest research institute. Previously, he worked nine years for Accenture within development and deployment of methodology, knowledge management, and process improvement. He has a Ph.D. and MSc within information systems from NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, where he also currently holds a position as adjunct professor. His main research areas are modeling of enterprise information systems, knowledge management and computer-supported cooperative work. He has published more than 50 articles in Journals, Books, Conferences and Workshops since 1991. He is a Norwegian representative to IFIP TC 8 and a member of IFIP WG8.1.

Terry Halpin, BSc, DipEd, BA, MLitStud, PhD, is Technical Lead in Database Design, Enterprise Framework and Tools Unit, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA. After a lengthy career as an academic in computer science, which he combined with industrial work on database modeling, he moved to industry full time. His recent positions include head of database research at Asymetrix Corporation, research director of InfoModelers Inc. and director of Database Strategy at Visio Corporation, which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation. His research focuses on conceptual modeling and conceptual query technology for information systems, using a business rules approach. His doctoral thesis provided the first full formalization of Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM), and his publications include four books and more than 90 technical papers. His latest book, Information Modeling and Relational Databases, will be published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2001.

Keng Siau is an associate professor of management information systems (MIS) at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he majored in management information systems and minored in cognitive psychology. He has published more than 40 refereed journal articles, and these articles have appeared in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Information Systems, ACM’s Data Base, Journal of Database Management, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Transactions on Information and Systems, Quarterly Journal of ECommerce, and many others. In addition, he has published over 60 refereed conference papers in proceedings such as ICIS, ECIS, WITS, and HICSS. He served as the organizing and program chairs for the International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) (1996–2002).