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Toward an Ontology-Driven Unifying Metamodel for UML Class Diagrams, EER, and ORM2

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)

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Software compatibility and application integration can be achieved using their respective conceptual data models. However, each model may be represented in a different language. While such languages seem similar yet known to be distinct, no unifying framework exists that respects all of their language features. Aiming toward filling this gap, we designed a common, ontology-driven, metamodel of the static, structural, components of ER, EER, UML v2.4.1, ORM, and ORM2, such that each is a fragment of the encompassing consistent metamodel. This paper presents and overview and notable insights obtained on the real common core entities and constraints, roles and relationships, and attributes and value types that we refine with the notion of dimensional attribute.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal and UKZN/CSIR-Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, South Africa

    C. Maria Keet

  2. Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina

    Pablo Rubén Fillottrani

  3. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Pablo Rubén Fillottrani

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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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Keet, C.M., Fillottrani, P.R. (2013). Toward an Ontology-Driven Unifying Metamodel for UML Class Diagrams, EER, and ORM2. 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_26

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