On the evolution of conceptual modeling

Since the 1980s the need increased for overcoming idiosyncrasies of approaches to modeling in the various sub-disciplines of computing. The theoretical model of evolution is used in this paper for analyzing how computing and conceptual modeling have changed. It is concluded that computing has changed into a social phenomenon with a technical core and that therefore relying on (formal) model semantics as the sole tool for the discussion of conceptual modeling is no more adequate. A number of language games of computing is identified and the task set to describe these language games to the extent necessary for deciding whether or not they can serve as the foundation of computing

08181 Abstracts Collection -- The Evolution of Conceptual Modeling

From 24.04. to 30.04.2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08181 ``The Evolution of Conceptual Modeling\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available

Aspect based conceptual modelling of web applications

Though there are many Web application modelling approches these are aimed at assisting the implementation process. There are many benefits in creating a conceptual model of the Web application to verify whether the application domain requirements have been properly understood. We have developed a way of modelling a web application at a conceptual level based on set of aspects; Overall Presentation, Primary Navigation, Hypertext Model, Process Model and Personalisation Model. We have found that this set of conceptually non-overlapping aspects greatly simplifies the modelling task. We also observed that application domain users found it easy to relate to these aspects and provide feedback on the accuracy of the model