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Categorization of Modeling Language Concepts: Graded or Discrete?

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops (OTM 2013)

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We investigate the category structure of categories common to conceptual modeling languages (i.e., the types used by languages such as actor, process, goal, or restriction) to study whether they more closely approximate a discrete or graded category. We find that most categories exhibit more of a graded structure, with experienced modelers displaying this even more strongly than the other participants. We discuss the consequences of these results for (conceptual) modeling in general.

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  1. Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Dirk van der Linden

  2. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Dirk van der Linden

  3. EE-Team, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Dirk van der Linden

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  1. Systems, Software and In-Orbit Demonstration Department, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    Yan Tang Demey

  2. CRAN, University of Lorraine, Campus Sciences, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

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van der Linden, D. (2013). Categorization of Modeling Language Concepts: Graded or Discrete?. In: Demey, Y.T., Panetto, H. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Workshops. OTM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41033-8_99

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