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    • A new plan generation method for deductive conceptual models validation 

      Costal Costa, Dolors (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, 1993)
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      A new method for planning in a deductive conceptual model context is proposed. lt is based on viewing the information base modelled by a deductive conceptual model as a deductive database. This is possible provided that ...

    • A unifying framework for the definition of syntactic measures over conceptual schema diagrams (extended version) 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (2011-07-20)
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      There are many approaches that propose the use of measures for assessing the quality of conceptual schemas. Many of these measures focus purely on the syntactic aspects of the conceptual schema diagrams, e.g. their size, ...

    • Adoption of OSS components: a goal-oriented approach 

      López Cuesta, Lidia; Costal Costa, Dolors; Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Annosi, Maria Carmela; Glott, Ruediger; Haaland, Kirsten (Elsevier, 2015-09-01)
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      Open Source Software (OSS) has become a strategic asset for a number of reasons, such as short time-to-market software delivery, reduced development and maintenance costs, and its customization capabilities. Therefore, ...

    • Aligning business goals and risks in OSS adoption 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; López Cuesta, Lidia; Morandini, Mirko; Siena, Alberto; Annosi, Maria Carmela; Gross, Daniel; Méndez Tapia, Emma Lucía; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Susi, Angelo (Springer International Publishing, 2015)
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      Increasing adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) requires a change in the organizational culture and reshaping IT decision-makers mindset. Adopting OSS software components introduces some risks that can affect the adopter ...

    • An approach to validation of deductive conceptual models 

      Costal Costa, Dolors (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, 1991)
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      We propose an approach to validation of deductive conceptual models. This validation is performed through plan generation. The objective of plan generation is to determine sequences of events that lead to a certain goal ...

    • An ISO/IEC-compliant quality model for ER diagrams 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (2004-04)
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      Assessing the quality of domain conceptual models is a key issue in the early stages of information system development. Several proposals of quality criteria have been proposed in the literature but they are ad-hoc and ...

    • Declarative taxonomic constraint enforcement in conceptual schemas 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Gómez Seoane, Cristina; Teniente López, Ernest (2005-04)
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      We propose to declaratively specify policies for the enforcement of integrity constraints directly in the structural conceptual schema. The policies we propose depend on the kind of taxonomic constraint to be enforced ...

    • Development of service-oriented architectures using model-driven development : a mapping study 

      Ameller, David; Burgués Illa, Xavier; Collell, Oriol; Costal Costa, Dolors; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Papazoglou, Mike P. (2015-06-01)
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      Context: Model-Driven Development (MDD) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are two challenging research areas in software engineering. MDD is about improving software development whilst SOA is a service-based conceptual ...

    • Disseny físic de bases de dades 

      Cabré Segarra, Blai; Casas Roma, Jordi; Costal Costa, Dolors; Juanola Juanola, Pere; Rius Gavidia, Àngels; Segret Sala, Ramon (Eureca Media, SL, 2012-09)
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      El disseny físic de bases de dades constitueix la quarta etapa en el procés de disseny d’una base de dades. En les etapes anteriors s’ha realitzat l’anàlisi de requeriments, el disseny conceptual i, finalment, el disseny ...

    • Enginyeria del software especificació : especificació de sistemes orientats a objectes amb la notació UML 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Sancho Samsó, María Ribera; Teniente López, Ernest (Edicions UPC, 2003)
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      Aquesta publicació inclou les transparències i els exercicis que s'utilitzen a l'assignatura Enginyeria del Software: Especificació, que s'imparteix a la Facultat d'Informàtica de la UPC. Aquesta documentació pot servir ...

    • Enginyeria del software especificació : especificació de sistemes orientats a objectes amb la notació UML 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Sancho Samsó, María Ribera; Teniente López, Ernest (Edicions UPC, 2000)
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      Aquesta publicació inclou les transparències i els exercicis que s'utilitzen a l'assignatura Enginyeria del Software: Especificació, que s'imparteix a la Facultat d'Informàtica de la UPC. Aquesta documentació pot servir ...

    • Especificación de sistemas software en UML 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Sancho Samsó, María Ribera; Teniente López, Ernest (Edicions UPC, 2003)
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      La presente documentación puede servir como guía para todas aquellas personas que quieran formarse en el ámbito de la ingeniería del software. Más concretamente, su objetivo principal es explicar cómo debe realizarse la ...

    • Especificación declarativa del reforzamiento de restricciones de asociaciones en esquemas conceptuales 

      Nieto, Pilar; Santiago, Antonio; Costal Costa, Dolors; Gómez Seoane, Cristina (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2006)
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      En este artículo se proponen un conjunto de políticas de reforzamiento para las restricciones de integridad de asociaciones (xor, subset y referencial) en esquemas conceptuales. Dichas políticas permiten al diseñador ...

    • Expert mining for evaluating risk indicators scenarios 

      Franco Bedoya, Óscar Hernán; Costal Costa, Dolors; Hidalgo Hidalgo, Soraya; Ben-Jacob, Ron (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      To take maximum advantage of open source software (OSS), the understanding, management and mitigation of OSS adoption risks is crucial. The objective is to avoid the impact of potentially significant adverse events on the ...

    • Facilitating the definition of general constraints in UML (extended version) 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Gómez Seoane, Cristina; Queralt Calafat, Anna; Raventós Pagès, Ruth; Teniente López, Ernest (2006-04)
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      One important aspect in the specification of conceptual schemas is the definition of general constraints that cannot be expressed by the predefined constructs provided by conceptual modeling languages. In general this is ...

    • GoBIS: An integrated framework to analyse the goal and business process perspectives in information systems 

      Ruiz, Marcela A. G.; Costal Costa, Dolors; España, Sergio; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Lopez Pastor, Oscar (2015)
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      Context: Organisational reengineering, continuous process improvement, alignment among complementary analysis perspectives, and information traceability are some current motivations to promote investment and scientific ...

    • How tertiary studies perform quality assessment of secondary studies in software engineering 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Farré Tost, Carles; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Quer, Carme (Curran Associates, Inc., 2021)
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      Context: Tertiary studies are becoming increasingly popular in software engineering as an instrument to synthesise evidence on a research topic in a systematic way. In order to understand and contextualize their findings, ...

    • Inclusion and exclusion criteria in software engineering tertiary studies: A systematic mapping and emerging framework 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Farré Tost, Carles; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Quer, Carme (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021)
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      Context: Tertiary studies in software engineering (TS@SE) are widely used to synthesise evidence on a research topic systematically. As part of their protocol, TS@SE define inclusion and exclusion criteria (IC/EC) aimed ...

    • Integrating the goal and business process perspectives in information system analysis 

      Ruiz, Marcela A. G.; Costal Costa, Dolors; España, Sergio; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Pastor Lopez, Oscar (Springer, 2014)
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      There are several motivations to promote investment and scientific effort in the integration of intentional and operational perspectives: organisational reengineering, continuous improvement of business processes, alignment ...

    • Introducing use cases in a small organization: an experience and lessons learned 

      Costal Costa, Dolors; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Rodríguez Cámara, Núria; Delgado Muñoz, Luis; Jiménez Abad, Carme (Universidad ORT Uruguay, 2013)
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      In this paper we report the adoption of use cases by a small organization in a university setting. Use cases were first introduced in the middle of a huge project and adopted thereafter for later projects. The paper mostly ...