Multilingualism and conceptual modelling

Conceptual Modelling and Telos

We review basic premises underlying the application of conceptual modelling to the development of information systems and point out a fundamental problem arising from the broad range of concepts that need to be modelled. We then argue that conventional conceptual models are weak for such broad domains of discourse because they come with built-in collections of primitive notions in terms of whic...

Terminological concept modelling and conceptual data modelling

Ontologies are useful for many purposes. The use of an ontology is, for example, crucial for writing consistent definitions of concepts within a specific domain. In this paper, we will argue that the principles of rigorous terminology work are useful for building consistent ontologies. In many cases, developers of IT systems encounter severe problems, because they neglect the necessity of devel...

Object Orientations and Conceptual Modelling

data types convey the idea that the structural description of a set of objects (showing the properties they share) has to be complemented with the definition of the operations which can manipulate the objects. This allows to capture both static and dynamic aspects of objects. The definitions of the allowed operations (the methods, in 00 terminology) represent the interface of the abstract data ...

Multilingualism, empathy and multicompetence

Virtual Organizations – Conceptual Modelling

Although there is a vast literature on virtual organizations (VO), there’s little agreement on this subject from the definition to the reference model. Explanation seems to be the lack of a consistent, easy to operate with and largely accepted definition and the absence of a framework to build useful conceptual models, based on formal theories. The present paper, presents an axiomatic, easy to ...