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Templates in Domain Modeling – A Survey

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The Evolution of Conceptual Modeling

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Conceptual modeling is often strongly related to a graphical language. Since the 80s, template-based approaches have also been proposed. However, they seldom reached the same popularity as graphical approaches. Nevertheless, template-based approaches are also important for collecting and representing information. This chapter will give a survey of approaches that used and use templates. It will be shown, how these templates are used and why their role is important.

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Kop, C., Mayr, H.C. (2011). Templates in Domain Modeling – A Survey. In: Kaschek, R., Delcambre, L. (eds) The Evolution of Conceptual Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6520. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17505-3_2

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