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Conceptual Modeling Perspectives

  • Jordi Cabot
  • Cristina Gómez
  • Oscar Pastor
  • Maria Ribera Sancho
  • Ernest Teniente
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. A Tribute to Antoni Olivé on the Occasion of His Retirement
    Janis Bubenko, Colette Rolland, Arne Sølvberg
    Pages 1-5
  3. 30 Years of Contributions to Conceptual Modeling
    Jordi Cabot, Cristina Gómez, Maria-Ribera Sancho, Ernest Teniente
    Pages 7-23
  4. Modeling Life: A Conceptual Schema-centric Approach to Understand the Genome
    Óscar Pastor López, Ana León Palacio, José Fabián Reyes Román, Juan Carlos Casamayor
    Pages 25-40
  5. Strategic Reading & Conceptual Modeling
    Oscar Díaz
    Pages 41-53
  6. Conceptual Modeling for Indicator Selection
    Alejandro Maté, Juan Trujillo, John Mylopoulos
    Pages 55-68
  7. Conceptual Modeling in Accelerating Information Ingest into Family Tree
    David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Tanner S. Eastmond, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Joseph P. Price, Scott N. Woodfield
    Pages 69-84
  8. Model Centered Architecture
    Heinrich C. Mayr, Judith Michael, Suneth Ranasinghe, Vladimir A. Shekhovtsov, Claudia Steinberger
    Pages 85-104
  9. Design-time Models for Resiliency
    Andrea Marrella, Massimo Mecella, Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani
    Pages 105-120
  10. Web System Development Using Polymorphic Widgets and Generic Schemas
    Scott Britell, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Paolo Atzeni
    Pages 121-135
  11. Model-Based Engineering for Database System Development
    Bernhard Thalheim
    Pages 137-153
  12. Quality Improvement of Conceptual UML and OCL Schemata through Model Validation and Verification
    Martin Gogolla, Khanh-Hoang Doan
    Pages 155-168
  13. CreatingWorlds with Words: Ontology-guided Conceptual Modeling for Institutional Domains
    Paul Johannesson, Maria Bergholtz, Owen Eriksson
    Pages 169-184
  14. Quality of Conceptual Models in Model Driven Software Engineering
    John Krogstie
    Pages 185-198
  15. A Unified Conceptual Framework for Managing Services in the Web Oriented Architecture
    Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori
    Pages 199-214
  16. Handling the Evolution of Information Systems: An Overview of Challenges and Prospective Solutions
    Michel Léonard, Jolita Ralyté
    Pages 215-229
  17. On Warehouses, Lakes, and Spaces: The Changing Role of Conceptual Modeling for Data Integration
    Matthias Jarke, Christoph Quix
    Pages 231-245
  18. A Method for Emerging Technology Evaluation. Application to Blockchain and Smart Data Discovery
    Jacky Akoka, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau
    Pages 247-258
  19. The Early Days of Entity-Relationship Modeling Retrospective on Dataid Project and Beyond
    Carlo Batini, Stefano Ceri
    Pages 259-268

About this book

Introduction

Conceptual modeling has always been one of the main issues in information systems engineering as it aims to describe the general knowledge of the system at an abstract level that facilitates user understanding and software development.

This collection of selected papers provides a comprehensive and extremely readable overview of what conceptual modeling is and perspectives on making it more and more relevant in our society. It covers topics like modeling the human genome, blockchain technology, model-driven software development, data integration, and wiki-like repositories and demonstrates the general applicability of conceptual modeling to various problems in diverse domains. Overall, this book is a source of inspiration for everybody in academia working on the vision of creating a strong, fruitful and creative community of conceptual modelers.

With this book the editors and authors want to honor Prof. Antoni Olivé for his enormous and ongoing contributions to the conceptual modeling discipline. It was presented to him on the occasion of his keynote at ER 2017 in Valencia, a conference that he has contributed to and supported for over 20 years. Thank you very much to Antoni for so many years of cooperation and friendship.

Keywords

Conceptual Modeling Requirements Engineering Ontologies Schema-Centric Software Development Software Engineering Entity-Relationship Modeling Model-Based Development

Editors and affiliations

  • Jordi Cabot
    • 1
  • Cristina Gómez
    • 2
  • Oscar Pastor
    • 3
  • Maria Ribera Sancho
    • 4
  • Ernest Teniente
    • 5
  1. 1.ICREAUniversitat Oberta de CatalunyaBarcelonaSpain
  2. 2.Department of Service and Information System EngineeringUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBarcelonaSpain
  3. 3.PROS Research CenterUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaValenciaSpain
  4. 4.Education and Training DepartmentBarcelona Supercomputing CenterBarcelonaSpain
  5. 5.Department of Service and Information System EngineeringUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBarcelonaSpain

About the editors

Jordi Cabot has been a professor at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), a research center of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) since 2015. His research falls into the broad area of systems and software engineering, especially promoting the rigorous use of software models and engineering principles in all software engineering tasks.

Cristina Gómez is a member of the GESSI research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Her research interests focus on conceptual modeling, information systems and object-oriented analysis and design.

Oscar Pastor is a professor and director of the “Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software (PROS)” at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).  His research activities focus on conceptual modeling, web engineering, requirements engineering, information systems, and model-based software production.

Maria-Ribera Sancho is a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Her main research areas include conceptual modeling, information systems, software and service science engineering. Recently her research interests have focused on learning analytics and conceptual modeling.

Ernest Teniente is a professor at the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya’s Department of Service and Information System Engineering. His research interests include ontologies and conceptual modeling, business process modeling, automated reasoning, integrity constraints enforcement, the Internet of Things, and data integration.

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