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Conceptual-Model Programming: A Manifesto

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In order to promote conceptual-model programming (CMP), we present these CMP articles. We hold these articles to be the defining principles for model-complete software development.

Essentially, this CMP manifesto asserts that programming activities are to be carried out via conceptual modeling. For applications amenable to conceptual-model designs, software developers should never need to write a line of traditional code. Thus, programming is actually conceptual-model programming.

To accommodate CMP, conceptual-modeling languages must be executable. They must also be capable of completely deploying both databases and user interfaces and conceptually expressing database access and user interaction. To enable CMP, a conceptual-model compiler must exist to generate underlying code, which could be, but is not necessarily, high-level language code that itself needs further compilation. Important, however, is that model-compiled code is beyond the purview of CMP programmers – both for initially creating the application system being developed and for enhancing or evolving the application system. Thus, application-system development becomes entirely model-driven, and CMP constitutes model-complete software development.

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  1. David W. Embley & Stephen W. Liddle

    Present address: Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, 84602, Provo, Utah, USA

  2. Oscar Pastor

    Present address: Centro de Investigacion en Metodos de Produccion de Software, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

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    Embley, D., Liddle, S., Pastor, O. (2011). Conceptual-Model Programming: A Manifesto. In: Embley, D., Thalheim, B. (eds) Handbook of Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15865-0_1

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