Table of Contents

Preface     vii
Towards an Ontology for Information Systems Development: A Contextual Approach   Mauri Leppanen     1
Ontological Analysis of KAOS Using Separation of References   Raimundas Matulevicius   Patrick Heymans   Andreas L. Opdahl     37
Applying UML for Modeling the Physical Design of Data Warehouses   Sergio Lujan-Mora   Juan Trujillo     55
Supporting the Full BPM Life-Cycle Using Process Mining and Intelligent Redesign   Wil M. P. van der Aalst   Mariska Netjes   Hajo A. Reijers     100
Efficient Placement and Processing in Shared-Nothing Data Warehouses   Pedro Nuno San-Bento Furtado     133
Factors Affecting Design Decisions for Customer Relationship Management Data Warehouses   Colleen Cunningham   Il-Yeol Song     159
Effective Processing of XML-Extended OLAP Queries Based on a Physical Algebra   Xuepeng Yin   Torben Bach Pedersen     192
Is There a Difference Between the Theoretical and Practical Complexity of UML?   Keng Siau   John Erickson   Lih Yunn Lee     243
Data Quality: An Assessment   Jeretta Horn Nord   G. Daryl Nord   Hongjiang Xu   Elizabeth S. Myrin     265
Cover Storiesfor Key Attributes: Expanded Database Access Control   Nenad Jukic   Svetlozar Nestorov   Susan V. Vrbsky   Allen Parrish     287
About the Contributors     320
Index     327