By incorporating aspects of coordination and collaboration, workkow implementations of information systems require a sound conceptualisation of business processing semantics. Traditionally, the success of conceptual modelling techniques has depended largely on the adequacy of conceptualisation, expressive power, comprehensibility and formal foundation. An equally important requirement, particul...

Conceptual data modelling techniques aim at the representation of data at a high level of abstraction. The Conceptualisation Principle states that only those aspects are to be represented that deal with the meaning of the Universe of Discourse. Conventional conceptual data modelling techniques, as e.g. ER or NIAM, have to violate the Conceptualisation Principle when dealing with objects with a ...

Previous literature suggests that posttraumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is associated with poor physical health. To date a number of existing hypotheses have been developed to explain this association focusing predominantly on the interplay between cognitive and emotional appraisals. We have attempted to synthesise existing literature on the role of cognitive and emotional appraisals in explaini...

In information science, it is considered that domain conceptualization can be realized by (one or several) ontologies. This paper presents a method of semi-automated domain conceptualization, where the domain of interest is Computational Creativity (CC). Grounded on papers, which were published in six consecutive years since 2010 in the Proceedings of International Conferences on Computational ...

Catchment urbanisation leads to increased hydraulic and pollutant loadings into receiving waterbodies. Issues concerning pollution that endangers the sustainable utilisation of water resources have focused government authorities towards integrated catchment management, where both causes and effects of pollution are addressed. Recent research has provided a platform for improving urban stormwate...

The Social Motivation Theory posits that a reduced sensitivity to the value of social stimuli, specifically faces, can account for social impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Research has demonstrated that typically developing (TD) individuals preferentially orient towards another type of salient social stimulus, namely biological motion. Individuals with ASD, however, do not show th...