Handbook of Conceptual Modeling Theory, Practice, and Research Chall
Conceptual modeling is about describing the semantics of software applications at a high level of abstraction in terms of structure, behavior, and user interaction.Embley and Thalheim start with a manifesto stating that the dream of developing information
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David W. Embley · Bernhard Thalheim Editors
Handbook of Conceptual Modeling Theory, Practice, and Research Challenges
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David W. Embley Department of Computer Science Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 USA [email protected] Bernhard Thalheim Universität Kiel Inst. Informatik Olshausenstr. 40 24098 Kiel Germany [email protected]
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Preface
The Handbook of Conceptual Modeling: Theory, Practice, and Research Challenges is about the challenges faced by conceptual-modeling researchers and their successes in meeting these challenges by formalizing underlying theory and showing how to put conceptual modeling into practice. Conceptual modeling is about describing the semantics of software applications at a high level of abstraction. Specifically, conceptual modelers (1) describe structure models in terms of entities, relationships, and constraints; (2) describe behavior or functional models in terms of states, transitions among states, and actions performed in states and transitions; and (3) describe interactions and user interfaces in terms of messages sent and received, information exchanged, and look-and-feel navigation and appearance. In their typical usage, conceptual-model diagrams are high-level abstractions that enable clients and analysts to understand one another and enable analysts to communicate successfully with application programmers. It is a challenge to successfully provide the right set of modeling constructs at the right level of abstraction to enable this communication. It is an added challenge to formalize these modeling abstractions so that they retain their ease-of-communication property and yet are able to (partially or even fully) generate functioning application software. It is also a ch
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