It is now more than fifty years since the first paper on formal specifications of an information
system was published by Young and Kent. Even if the term “conceptual model” was not used …

Conceptual schema-centric development (CSCD) is a research goal that reformulates the
historical aim of automating information systems development. In CSCD, conceptual …

Instrumente des Qualitätsmanagements, insbesondere die Fehlermöglichkeits-und
Einflussanalyse (FMEA), sind bei der Dokumentation von Wissen in Unternehmen weit …

High quality data and process representations are critical to the success of system
development efforts. Despite this importance, quantitative methods for evaluating the quality …

Globalization has opened new frontiers for business enterprises and human communication.
There is an information explosion that necessitates huge amounts of information to be …

Ontology mapping is the key point to reach interoperability over ontologies. In semantic Web
environment, ontologies are usually distributed and heterogeneous and thus it is necessary …

Several approaches, such as modeling, assessment, measurement, and technology
adoption, are available to improve a software process. The approaches supplement each …

Cardinality constraints are one of the most important kinds of constraint in conceptual
modeling. In addition to constraining the population of relationship types, cardinality …

In this report, we study how relational schemas can be translated into conceptual schemas.
We first give an overview of the modelling language ConceptBase. To illustrate how …

Section 9.1 studies the concept of an integrity constraint and its importance in conceptual
modeling. Section 9.2 shows that integrity constraints can be classified from several points of …