Improving the quality of business object models using collaboration patterns
Communications of the ACM - Has the Internet become indispensable?
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Evaluating the adoption potential of design science efforts: The case of APSARA
Decision Support Systems
Information Technology and Management
Situational maturity models as instrumental artifacts for organizational design
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Granularity as a Cognitive Factor in the Effectiveness of Business Process Model Reuse
BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
Information Systems Research
Is Query Reuse Potentially Harmful? Anchoring and Adjustment in Adapting Existing Database Queries
Information Systems Research
Exploring alternatives for representing and accessing design knowledge about enterprise integration
ER'07 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Improving the efficiency of use of software engineering practices using product patterns
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Pattern-based approach for designing with diagrammatic and propositional conceptual models
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Towards requirement analysis pattern for learning agents
AOSE'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering
A knowledge-based object modeling advisor for developing quality object models
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Semi-automatic conceptual data modeling using entity and relationship instance repositories
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
The ecology of learning-by-building: bridging design science and natural history of knowledge
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
A knowledge-based system for improving the consistency between object models and use case narratives
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Design and evaluation of Ubiquitous Information Systems and use in healthcare
Decision Support Systems
Journal of Database Management
Modeling Design Patterns for Semi-Automatic Reuse in System Design
Journal of Database Management
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Conceptual design is an important, but difficult, phase of systems development. Analysis patterns can greatly benefit this phase because they capture abstractions of situations that occur frequently in conceptual modeling. Na脙炉ve approaches to automate conceptual design with reuse of analysis patterns have had limited success because they do not emulate the learning that occurs over time. This research develops learning mechanisms for improving analysis pattern reuse in conceptual design. The learning mechanisms employ supervised learning techniques to support the generic reuse tasks of retrieval, adaptation, and integration, and emulate expert behaviors of analogy making and designing by assembly. They are added to a na脙炉ve approach and the augmented methodology implemented as an intelligent assistant to a designer for generating an initial conceptual design that a developer may refine. To assess the potential of the methodology to benefit practice, empirical testing is carried out on multiple domains and tasks of different sizes. The results suggest that the methodology has the potential to benefit practice.