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OpenCASE, an original CASE tool supporting conceptual modelling is presented in this paper. The CASE tool has been developed during the research focused on the ontology-centred conceptual modelling. It provides a strong emphasis on terms and their relations while supporting standard notations (now BORM, other notations are planned). The tool has an open plug-in-based architecture founded on the Eclipse platform, which makes the tool modular and extensible. The knowledge base of the models may be accessed via an API and thus used to implement verifications, various calculations (statistics), to transform models to outputs (reports) and to make inner transformations (e.g. normalisation). The architecture of the tool is briefly mentioned as well.
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Pergl, R., Tůma, J. (2012). OpenCASE– A Tool for Ontology-Centred Conceptual Modelling. In: Bajec, M., Eder, J. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31069-0_42
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