A unifying framework for the definition of syntactic measures over conceptual schema diagrams (extended version)
There are many approaches that propose the use of measures for assessing the quality of conceptual schemas. Many of these measures focus purely on the syntactic aspects of the conceptual schema diagrams, e.g. their size, their shape, etc. Similarities among different measures may be found both at th...
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| Format: | report |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repository: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/13059 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/13059 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | System design System analysis Conceptual structures (Information theory) Conceptual schema measure Conceptual schema diagram Metamodelling MOF Disseny de sistemes Anàlisi de sistemes Estructures conceptuals (Teoria de la informació) Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software |
| Summary: | There are many approaches that propose the use of measures for assessing the quality of conceptual schemas. Many of these measures focus purely on the syntactic aspects of the conceptual schema diagrams, e.g. their size, their shape, etc. Similarities among different measures may be found both at the intra-model level (i.e., several measures over the same type of diagram are defined following the same layout) and at the inter-model level (i.e., measures over different types of diagrams are similar considering an appropriate metaschema correspondence). In this paper we analyse these similarities for a particular family of diagrams used in conceptual modelling, those that can be ultimately seen as a combination of nodes and edges of different types. We propose a unifying measuring framework for this family and illustrate its application on a particular type, namely business process diagrams. |
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