The need to discuss complex concepts: transformation

The Need for Transformation

"We Need to Discuss the Relationship": Revisiting Relationships as Modeling Constructs

This paper advances our long-term research program on ontological foundations for conceptual modeling by addressing one of conceptual modeling’s most fundamental constructs, namely, relationships. We investigate the nature of relationships and present an ontological theory of relationships as endurants (roughly object-like entities). In this view, and in contrast with the interpretation of rela...

The Need to Disentangle Key Concepts from Ecosystem-Approach Jargon

The ecosystem approach--as endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) in 2000-is a strategy for holistic, sustainable, and equitable natural resource management, to be implemented via the 12 Malawi Principles. These principles describe the need to manage nature in terms of dynamic ecosystems, while fully engaging with local peoples. It is an ambitious concept. Today, the term is c...

From Linear to Complicated to Complex; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

Attention to collaborative approaches to encouraging evidence use in healthcare practice are gaining traction. The inherent complexities in collaborative and networked approaches to knowledge translation (KT) have been embraced by Kitson and colleagues in their complexity network model. In this commentary, the potential of complexity as presented by Kitson et al within their model is considered...

Applying Advanced TGG Concepts for a Complex Transformation of Sequence Diagram Specifications to Timed Game Automata

Declarative model transformation languages like QVT-R and TGGs are particularly convenient because mappings between models can be specified in a rule-based way, describing how patterns in one model correspond to patterns in another. The same mapping specification can be used for different transformation and synchronization scenarios, which are important in model-based software engineering. Howe...