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Measuring Consensus Effectiveness by a Generalized Entropy Criterion
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Category theory for computing science
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Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Handling conflict between domain descriptions with computer-supported negotiation
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Requirements Validation Through Viewpoint Resolution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
A Framework for Expressing the Relationships Between Multiple Views in Requirements Specification
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Resolving requirements conflicts with computer-supported negotiation
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International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
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The Zeno argumentation framework
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Managing Requirements Inconsistency with Development Goal Monitors
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A framework for multi-valued reasoning over inconsistent viewpoints
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
A logic for uncertain probabilities
International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems
Viewpoints: principles, problems and a practical approach to requirements engineering
Annals of Software Engineering
The consensus operator for combining beliefs
Artificial Intelligence
Extending standard UML with model composition semantics
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue on unified modeling language (UML 2000)
Identifying Quality-Requirement Conflicts
IEEE Software
Inconsistency Handling in Multiperspective Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Towards Declarative Programming of Conceptual Models
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The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
A Methodological Framework for Viewpoint-Oriented Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
View merging in the presence of incompleteness and inconsistency
Requirements Engineering
Analyzing the degree of conflict among belief functions
Artificial Intelligence
Viewpoints Merging via Incrementally Elicited Ranked Structures
QSIC '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Quality Software
Matching and Merging of Statecharts Specifications
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
A framework for distributed collaborative conceptual model development
Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion
A proposal for taming uncertainty in the collaborative conceptual model development process
Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion
Merging models based on given correspondences
VLDB '03 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 29
On the Collaborative Development of Para-Consistent Conceptual Models
QSIC '07 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software
Elicitation, assessment, and pooling of expert judgments using possibility theory
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
Knowledge and Information Systems
Evidential reasoning for the treatment of incoherent terminologies
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Buyer/seller collaboration through measurement of beliefs on innovativeness of products
Computers in Industry
Consolidating multiple requirement specifications through argumentation
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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Merging and integrating different conceptual models which have been collaboratively developed by domain experts and analysts with dissimilar perspectives on the same issue has been the subject of tremendous amount of research. In this paper, we focus on the fact that human analysts' opinions possess a degree of uncertainty which can be exploited while integrating such information. We propose an underlying modeling construct which is the basis for transforming conceptual models into a manipulatable format. Based on this construct, methods for formally negotiating over and merging of conceptual models are proposed. The approach presented in this paper focuses on the formalization of uncertainty and expert reliability through the employment of belief theory. The proposed work has been evaluated for its effectiveness and usability. The evaluators (a group of Computer Science graduate students) believed that the proposed framework has the capability to fulfil its intended tasks. The obtained results from the performance perspective are also promising.