Conceptual modelling is a promising approach for Web application development, thanks to innovative CASE tools that can transform high-level specifications into executable code. So far, the impact of conceptual modelling has been evaluated mostly on analysis and design. This paper addresses its influence on testing, one of the most important and effort-consuming phases, by investigating how the ...

Branding has become a business priority over the past few decades due to growing awareness that brands are one of companies’ most valuable intangible assets. Academics and practitioners have proposed models components simplify into small number parts, or dimensions. Nonetheless, there is lack specific approaches brand management fit scenarios. The objective this study was propose general framew...

The Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, has recently created the "Collaborative Design Environment" (CoDE), a nextgeneration design facility supporting efficient, rapidturnaround conceptual design. The CoDE combines cost-effective, off-the-shelf information technology with advanced design methodologies and tools...

This paper introduces a new, domain-specific specification language called CONCEPTUAL. CONCEPTUAL enables the expression of sophisticated communication benchmarks and network validation tests in comparatively few lines of code. Besides helping programmers save time writing and debugging code, CONCEPTUAL addresses the important— but largely unrecognized—problem of benchmark opacity. Benchmark op...

In this work, we present an automatic code generation process from conceptual models. This process incorporates the use of design patterns in OO-Method, an automated software production method, which is built on a formal object-oriented model called OASIS. Our approach defines a precise mapping between conceptual patterns, design patterns and their implementation. Design patterns make the code ...

BACKGROUND Burden of treatment refers to the workload of health care as well as its impact on patient functioning and well-being. We set out to build a conceptual framework of issues descriptive of burden of treatment from the perspective of the complex patient, as a first step in the development of a new patient-reported measure. METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews with patients s...

OBJECTIVE To provide practical strategies for conducting and evaluating analyses of qualitative data applicable for health services researchers. DATA SOURCES AND DESIGN: We draw on extant qualitative methodological literature to describe practical approaches to qualitative data analysis. Approaches to data analysis vary by discipline and analytic tradition; however, we focus on qualitative data...

Programming technologies have improved continuously during the last decades, but from an Information Systems perspective, some well-known problems associated to the design and implementation of an Information Systems persists. Object-Oriented Methods, Formal Specification Languages, Component-Based Software Production... This is just a very short list of technologies proposed to solve a very ol...

The main purposes of this article are to identify the dimensions of organisational knowledge creation strategies (EICE model: exploration, institutional entrepreneurship, combination, exploitation) and to

the value of creating dichotomies in the ways organisms (plants or animals) are viewed. Therefore, in this present review, I will avoid previously cited literature and discussion, and will present an integrated but eclectic update of some of these investigations, especially those that deal with whole-organism signaling in plants and sessile colonial animals. Furthermore, I will present these re...