NATION: DETERMINATION CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINES

Reference Determination and Conceptual Change

The paper discusses reference determination from the point of view of conceptual change in science. The first part of the discussion uses the homology concept, a natural kind term from biology, as an example. It is argued that the causal theory of reference gives an incomplete account of reference determination even in the case of natural kind terms. Moreover, even if descriptions of the refere...

Conceptual - to - Workflow Model Transformation Guidelines

Guidelines for the Determination of Stability Constants

Guidelines for Empirical Evaluations of Conceptual Modeling Grammars

Conceptual modeling grammars are used to create scripts that represent someone’s perception, or some group’s negotiated perception, of domain semantics. For many years, researchers have evaluated conceptual modeling grammars to determine ways that they can be improved. One way to evaluate them is to empirically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the grammars in terms of their effectivenes...

Telematics for clinical guidelines: a conceptual modelling approach.

PRESTIGE is a project for applying telematics to assist the dissemination and application of clinical practice guidelines and protocols. Previous publications have described PRESTIGE's technical approach, including the use of a generic model for representing the knowledge content of clinical guidelines. This approach offers the possibility of 'plug-and-play' electronic distribution of clinical ...