Characterizing Conceptual Modeling Research

• Published in: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2019 Conferences Vol. 11877; pp. 40 - 57
• Main Authors: Delcambre, Lois M. L., Liddle, Stephen W., Pastor, Oscar, Storey, Veda C.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2019; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Conceptual modeling; Methods; Reference framework
• ISBN: 9783030332457; 3030332454
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33246-4_3

The field of conceptual modeling continues to evolve and be applied to important modeling problems in many domains. With a goal of articulating the breadth and depth of the field, our initial work focused on the many implicit and explicit definitions of conceptual modeling, resulting in the Characterizing Conceptual Modeling (CCM) framework. In this paper, we focus on conceptual modeling research, presenting a Characterizing Conceptual Model Research (CCMR) framework and a series of evaluations to assess the coverage and usability of CCMR, the utility and independence of the individual fields in the framework, and likelihood of consistent use.