A unified modelling language without referential redundancy

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 277-300

  Opdahl, Andreas L ^a   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c University of Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Bunge Wand Weber model (BWW model); Conceptual model quality; Conceptual modelling; Enterprise modelling; Facet modelling; Information systems modelling (IS modelling); Meta Object Facility (MOF); Metamodelling; Unified Modelling Language (UML)

Indexed keywords

BUNGE-WAND-WEBER MODEL (BWW MODEL); CONCEPTUAL MODEL QUALITY; CONCEPTUAL MODELLING; ENTERPRISE MODELLING; FACET MODELLING; INFORMATION SYSTEM MODELLING (IS MODELLING); META-OBJECT FACILITY (MOF); METAMODELLING; UNIFIED MODELLING LANGUAGE;

CONCRETES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; REDUNDANCY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 25844468240     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2004.12.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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