Abstract Models play an important role in Systems Analysis and Design (SAD). A
diagrammatic model is defined as a mapping from a domain to a visual representation in …

Numerous visual notations are present in technical and business domains. Notations have
to be cognitively effective to ease the planning, documentation, and communication of the …

Chatbots are becoming a common component of many types of software systems. But they
are typically developed as a side feature using ad-hoc tools and custom integrations …

Smart decision making plays a central role for smart city governance. It exploits data
analytics approaches applied to collected data, for supporting smart cities stakeholders in …

The efficacy of electronic government (E-Government) initiatives relies significantly on
requirements engineering (RE). Every government wants sustainable solutions in the …

Context: Software quality engineering is increasingly gaining interests also in the Model-
Driven Engineering community as testified by a large corpus of research that has been …

Model-Driven Development (MDD) has been proposed as an alternative to the traditional
development of information systems, given its ability to integrate different stakeholders into …

Modeling is often associated with complex and heavy tooling, leading to a negative
perception among practitioners. However, alternative paradigms, such as everything-as …

Several architecture frameworks for software, systems, and enterprises have been proposed
in the literature. They identified various stakeholders and defined architecture viewpoints …

Modelling languages have proved to be an effective tool to specify and analyse various
perspectives of enterprises and information systems. In addition to modelling language …