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A Semantic Analysis of Shared References

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Models, according to common understanding, facilitate to make and share references. A reference is a deictic activity whose point of origin differs from its target. The activity of modeling rests on taking a reference’s point of origin as a substitute for its target. In this paper I discuss two aspects of modeling, namely abstraction and direction-of-fit. I am going to show that representation, rather than abstraction, is key to modeling and that the direction-of-fit is not inherent to a model.

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    Roland Kaschek

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Wilfred Ng

  2. Department of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, USA

    Veda C. Storey

  3. University of Allicante, 03690, Allicante, Spain

    Juan C. Trujillo

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Kaschek, R. (2013). A Semantic Analysis of Shared References. In: Ng, W., Storey, V.C., Trujillo, J.C. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_8

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