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APCCM
2007
13 years 10 months ago
XSEM - A Conceptual Model for XML
We propose a new conceptual model for XML data called XSEM as a combination of several approaches in the area of the conceptual modeling for XML. The model divides the conceptual ...
Martin Necasky
ER
2008
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
What's in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis
In a series of publications, we have proposed a foundational system of ontological categories which has been successfully used to evaluate and improve the quality of conceptual mod...
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner
WSC
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical investigations of conceptual modeling and the modeling process
Conceptual modeling, deciding what to include in the model, is a very important task in the modeling process. However, it has so far received relatively little attention in the li...
Wang Wang, Roger J. Brooks
WSC
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Guiding principles for conceptual model creation in manufacturing simulation
Conceptual models serve as abstractions of user’s perceptions of a system. The choice and detailing of these abstractions are key to model use and understanding for analyst and ...
Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Jack G. A. J. van der Vors...
CAISE
2009
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
The Problem of Transitivity of Part-Whole Relations in Conceptual Modeling Revisited
Abstract. Parthood is a relation of fundamental importance in a number of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics and conceptual modeling. However, one classical probl...
Giancarlo Guizzardi
ER
2006
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Ontology with Likeliness and Typicality of Objects in Concepts
Ontologies play an indispensable role in the Semantic Web by specifying the definitions of concepts and individual objects. However, most of the existing methods for constructing o...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Ho-fung Leung
EDBTW
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Unsatisfiability Reasoning in ORM Conceptual Schemes
ORM (Object-Role Modeling) is a rich and well-known conceptual modeling method. As ORM has a formal semantics, reasoning tasks such as satisfiability checking of an ORM schema natu...
Mustafa Jarrar, Stijn Heymans
ER
1997
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
From Ancient Egyptian Language to Future Conceptual Modeling
This paper discusses the construction principles of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs from the point of view of conceptual modeling. The paper starts with a summary of author’s previo...
Peter P. Chen
ER
1999
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
"Modeling-by-Patterns" of Web Applications
“A pattern ... describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can us...
Franca Garzotto, Paolo Paolini, Davide Bolchini, S...
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Conceptual Modeling through Linguistic Analysis Using LIDA
Despite the advantages that object technology can provide to the software development community and its customers, the fundamental problems associated with identifying objects, th...
Scott P. Overmyer, Benoit Lavoie, Owen Rambow