Ownership as a conceptual modeling construct
Ownership is a relationship that pervades many aspects of our lives, from the personal to the economic, and is...
Complexity and clarity in conceptual modeling: Comparisonof mandatory and optional properties
Two versions of the entity-relationship model (ERM) are compared in this empirical study. One modelgrammar uses optional properties and...
Conceptual modeling for data and knowledge management
In order to exploit knowledge embedded in databases and to migrate from data to knowledge management envi-ronments, conceptual...
Converting XML DTDs to UML diagrams forconceptual data integration
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is fast becoming the new standard for data representation andexchange on the World Wide Web,...
NL structures and conceptual modelling: Grammalizing for KISS
As conceptual models are both the result of and subject to communication between domain experts and information analysts, it...
From reference ontologies to ontology patterns and back
Building proper reference ontologies is a hard task. There are a number of methods and toolsthat traditionally have been...
On the feasibility of using conceptual modeling constructs for the design andanalysis of XML...
XML is one of the most widely accepted data representation languages in today's Internet-dominated Computing. While most XML data...
An ontology-driven unifying metamodel of UML Class Diagrams,EER, and ORM2
AsbtractSoftware interoperability and application integration can be realized through using theirrespective conceptual data models, which may be represented in...
Methodological guidelines for reusing general ontologies
Currently, there is a great deal of well-founded explicit knowledge formalizing general notions,such as time concepts and thepart_ofrelation. Yet,...
A Unified Modelling Language without referential redundancy
The paper argues that, as a language for representing concrete problem domains, the quality of the UMLis compromised by...
