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Conceptual Modelling is a cognitive intensive process. Prior research has acknowledged the importance of cognitive theories and their implications for Conceptual Modelling. Several authors have developed hypotheses to give modellers a hint how to improve their models. Although much effort has been made, researchers and practitioners cannot easily apply or broaden these hypotheses. Yet, they are forced to spend a lot of review work, as a comprehensive overview about past research is missing. With this paper we give a review of hypotheses developed from Cognition for Conceptual Modelling.
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Stark, J., Esswein, W. (2012). Rules from Cognition for Conceptual Modelling. In: Atzeni, P., Cheung, D., Ram, S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7532. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34002-4_6
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