Information systems development and data modeling: conceptual and philosophical foundations
Information systems development and data modeling: conceptual and philosophical foundations
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A Theoretical Integration of User Satisfaction and Technology Acceptance
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Complexity and clarity in conceptual modeling: comparison of mandatory and optional properties
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How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?
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Data & Knowledge Engineering
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CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
From business process models to process-oriented software systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Business Process Modeling: Current Issues and Future Challenges
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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Data & Knowledge Engineering
Semantic analysis of flow patterns in business process modeling
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
Empirical research in business process management: introduction to the special issue
Information Systems and e-Business Management
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
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Decision Support Systems
Eye-tracking the factors of process model comprehension tasks
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
HCI International'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information: information and interaction design - Volume Part I
Data centric research at the University of Queensland
ACM SIGMOD Record
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Conceptual modeling grammars are a fundamental means for specifying information systems requirements. However, the actual usage of these grammars is only poorly understood. In particular, little is known about how properties of these grammars inform usage beliefs such as usefulness and ease of use. In this paper, we use an ontological theory to describe conceptual modeling grammars in terms of their ontological deficiencies, and formulate two propositions in regard to how these ontological deficiencies influence primary usage beliefs. Using BPMN as an example modeling grammar, we surveyed 528 modeling practitioners to test the theorized relationships. Our results show that users of conceptual modeling grammars perceive ontological deficiencies to exist, and that these deficiency perceptions are negatively associated with usefulness and ease of use of these grammars. With our research, we provide empirical evidence in support of the predictions of the ontological theory of modeling grammar expressiveness, and we identify previously unexplored links between conceptual modeling grammars and grammar usage beliefs. This work implies for practice a much closer coupling of the act of (re-)designing modeling grammars with usage-related success metrics.