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Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Antoni Olivé

    1. Department of Software (LSI), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Catalonia, Spain

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  • Explains the principles of conceptual modeling independently from particular methods and languages
  • Presents the principles with the detail required to correctly apply them in real projects
  • Explains the formal bases of conceptual schemas through the extensive use of intuitive ideas and examples
  • Details the use of the standard UML/OCL as a particular conceptual modeling language
  • Provides exercises for readers who want to practice and deepen their knowledge
  • Gives lots of hints for further reading, including a huge list of bibliographical references for all the concepts presented in the book
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-36

  3. Entity Types

    Pages 37-58

  4. Relationship Types

    Pages 59-82

  5. Cardinality Constraints

    Pages 83-102

  6. Particular Kinds of Relationship Type

    Pages 103-122

  7. Reification

    Pages 123-136

  8. Generic Relationship Types

    Pages 137-156

  9. Derived Types

    Pages 157-180

  10. Integrity Constraints

    Pages 181-211

  11. Taxonomies

    Pages 213-245

  12. Domain Events

    Pages 247-275

  13. Action Request Events

    Pages 277-298

  14. State Transition Diagrams

    Pages 299-323

  15. Statecharts

    Pages 325-335

  16. Use Cases

    Pages 337-351

  17. Case Study

    Pages 353-381

  18. Metamodeling

    Pages 383-414

  19. The MOF and XMI

    Pages 415-429

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 431-455
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About this book

It is now more than fifty years since the first paper on formal specifications of an information system was published by Young and Kent. Even if the term “conceptual model” was not used at that time, the basic intention of the abstract specification was to a large extent the same as for developing conceptual models today: to arrive at a precise, abstract, and hardware - dependent model of the informational and time characteristics of a data processing problem. The abstract notation should enable the analyst to - ganize the problem around any piece of hardware. In other words, the p- pose of an abstract specification was for it to be used as an invariant basis for designing different alternative implementations, perhaps even using different hardware components. Research and practice of abstract modeling of information systems has since the late fifties progressed through many milestones and achie- ments. In the sixties, pioneering work was carried out by the CODASYL Development committee who in 1962 presented the “Information Al- bra”. At about the same time Börje Langefors published his elementary message and e-file approach to specification of information systems. The next decade, the seventies, was characterized by the introduction of a large number of new types of, as they were called, “data models”. We saw the birth of, for instance, Binary Data Models, Entity Relationship Models, Relational Data Models, Semantic Data Models, and Temporal Deductive Models.

Reviews

"The book is one of the most informative and comprehensive texts on conceptual modeling published to date. It is very appropriate for students of advanced level university courses in information systems, requirements engineering, or in data base design, as well as for qualified practitioners in the field." - Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

 

"Antoni Olivé has taken the time to create a book that is certain to become essential reading for students of conceptual modeling in information systems engineering." - Arne Solvberg, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

 

"The text is advanced in notions and concepts, but is highly educational and informative, containing very interesting ideas explained and illustrated in detail. The most interesting aspect is that the text combines formalization with the fundamentals of information systems engineering under a holistic approach." - Lefteris Angelis, Computing Reviews, May 2008

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Software (LSI), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Catalonia, Spain

    Antoni Olivé

About the author

Antoni Olivé is a professor of information systems at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. He has worked in this field during over 25 years. His main interests have been, and are, conceptual modeling, requirements engineering, information systems design and databases.

Antoni Olivé was the recipient of the DKE-ER Elsevier award for his contribution to the Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2003) and was Program Co-chair of ER 2006 - the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling.

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