How Conceptual Modeling Is Used

Pragmatic Forces in Conceptual Integration: How Blend Recruitment is Used to Make Metaphors More Compelling

Metaphor and analogy are cognitive tools which, in serving specific communicative goals and descriptive needs, are subject to a host of pragmatic pressures. Knowing that these pressures will shape the interpretation of a given metaphor, an effective communicator will exploit them to structure the conceptual content of the metaphor in such a way as to maximise its perceived aptness and argumenta...

How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?

Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and tools used by analysts when they model. As opposed to what academics, software providers and their resellers promote as should be happening, the aim of this research was to determine whether practitioners still embraced conceptual modelling seriously. In addition, what are the most popular techniques...

How Interactive Whiteboards Can be Used to Support Collaborative Modeling

Modeling is a key activity in system analysis and design. Users as well as stakeholders, experts and entrepreneurs need to be able to create shared understanding about a system representation in various phases of a design process. In each of these phases it is important to align views and ensure that differences in understanding of the system are resolved. Visualization is of high importance in...

Conceptual Modeling Using Conceptual Graphs

The next generation of task support systems aims at providing the relevant knowledge to knowledge-dependent activities, reducing the effort required to find or infer this knowledge from the data. In order to exploit knowledge associated with (or embedded in) databases and to migrate from data to knowledge management environments, conceptual modeling languages must offer more expressiveness than...

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