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Controlled Experiment in Business Model-Driven Conceptual Database Design

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2017, EMMSAD 2017)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 287))

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The paper presents the initial results of a controlled experiment that we conducted with professional database designers in order to evaluate an approach to automated design of the initial conceptual database model based on collaborative business process models. The source business process model is represented by BPMN, while the target conceptual model is represented by UML class diagram. The preliminary results confirm already obtained results in case-study based evaluation, as well as the results of an earlier controlled experiment conducted with undergraduate students. The evaluation implies that the proposed approach and implemented automatic generator enable the generation of the target conceptual model with a high percentage of completeness and precision.

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We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all participants of the controlled experiment for their voluntary participation and valuable contribution.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka, Patre 5, 78000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Drazen Brdjanin, Goran Banjac, Danijela Banjac & Slavko Maric

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  1. University of Haifa , Haifa, Israel

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  4. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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Brdjanin, D., Banjac, G., Banjac, D., Maric, S. (2017). Controlled Experiment in Business Model-Driven Conceptual Database Design. In: Reinhartz-Berger, I., Gulden, J., Nurcan, S., Guédria, W., Bera, P. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2017 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 287. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59466-8_18

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