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30 Years of Contributions to Conceptual Modeling

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This chapter is aimed at summarizing the contribution of Antoni Olivé to the field of conceptual modeling over the last three decades. It starts with his initial proposals around the year 1986 and it finishes with his most recent, not to say current, work on the field. The summary encompasses different topics, beginning with the deductive approach to conceptual modeling and its application to deductive databases, evolving later to object-oriented conceptual schemas and, more recently, to conceptual-schema centric development. All in all, the trajectory covers a wide range of topics, all of them of great importance at the time they were treated, and has meant an important advance of the knowledge in this area during all these years.

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Acknowledgements

As coauthors of Antoni’s papers, several people from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya have contributed to the field of conceptual modeling, and are still doing it with new, younger, researchers. We are grateful to all of them since they also made this chapter possible. So, we wish to thank David Aguilera, Jordi Conesa, Dolors Costal, Juan Ramón López, Joan Antoni Pastor, Carme Quer, Ruth Raventós, Jaume Sistac†, Albert Tort, Toni Urpí and Antonio Villegas for all the good work they did while being PhD students and collaborators of Antoni.

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    Jordi Cabot

  2. Department of Service and Information System Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Cristina Gómez & Ernest Teniente

  3. Department of Service and Information System Engeneering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

    Maria-Ribera Sancho

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  3. PROS Research Center, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

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Cabot, J., Gómez, C., Sancho, MR., Teniente, E. (2017). 30 Years of Contributions to Conceptual Modeling. In: Cabot, J., Gómez, C., Pastor, O., Sancho, M., Teniente, E. (eds) Conceptual Modeling Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67271-7_2

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