AL MODELLING: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION AND MODEL ABSTRACTION Kathy Kotiadis Stewart Robinson Operational Research and Management Sciences Group Warwick Business School University of W...
A recurring problem in conceptual modelling and ontology development is the representation of part-whole relations, with a requirement to be able to distinguish between essential a...
Continuous change of user requirements has become a constant for geo-information systems. Designing systems that can adapt to such changes requires an appropriate ethodology that ...
Conceptual modelling is thought (by academics at least) to be a key activity of Business Systems Analysis. For decades, comprehensive research has been conducted on related topics ...
Abstract. Conceptual modelling is a promising approach for Web application development, thanks to innovative CASE tools that can transform high-level specifications into executabl...
Associations are a widely used construct of object-oriented languages. However, the meaning of associations for conceptual modelling of application domains remains unclear. This pa...
With regard to environmental decision-making, the field of conceptual modelling is primarily focused on representation and visualisation. As such, the ‘soft’ problem structuri...
Frank van Kouwen, Carel Dieperink, Paul P. Schot, ...
Abstract. The conceptual modelling of software architectures is of central importance for the quality of a software system. A rich modelling language is required to integrate the d...
Natural language-based conceptual modelling as well as the use of diagrams have been essential components of fact-oriented modelling from its inception. However, transforming natur...
Abstract. We discuss the existence of matrix representations for generalised and minimum participation constraints which are frequently used in database design and conceptual model...