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Quality in Conceptual Modelling

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Conceptual modelling has become a key part of the early phases of the information system (IS) life cycle. Conceptual modelling is no longer only for databases, but in a broad sense it is considered as the elicitation and formal definition of the general knowledge about a domain that an IS needs to know now to provide in order to perform the required functions. Indeed, conceptual models lay the foundation of all later designs and implementation work. Therefore, special emphasis must be put on conceptual model quality, which can have a great impact on the IS which is finally implemented. The idea of this chapter is to present a thorough analysis of most of the existing relevant works related to conceptual model quality, to provide an overall view of what has been done and to get a more comprehensive idea of the direction in which research is going.

This research is part of the DOLMEN Project supported by CICYT (TIC 2000-1673-C06-06).

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Genero, M., Piattini, M. (2002). Quality in Conceptual Modelling. In: Piattini, M.G., Calero, C., Genero, M. (eds) Information and Database Quality. Advances in Database Systems, vol 25. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0831-1_2

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