Conceptual Modeling

Our strong capability of conceptualization makes us, human beings, different from any other species in our planet. We, as conceptual modelers, should apply in the right direction such fascinating capability to make it play an essential role in the design of the world to come. What does it mean that “right direction” requiresa challenging discussion. Halfway between the need of having a sound philosophical characterization and an effective, practical computer science application, conceptual modeling emerges as the ideal discipline needed for understanding life and improving our life style. This keynote explores this argument by delimiting the notion and scope of conceptual modeling, and by introducing and discussing two possible scenarios of fruitful application. The first one is oriented to better understand why conceptual modeling can help to manage the social challenges of the world of the emerging information era, and how this world that comes could benefit from it. The second one focuses on how understanding the human genome can open new ways to go beyond what we can consider “traditional Homo Sapiens capabilities”, with especial implications in the health domain and the new medicine of precision.

[1]  Nicola Guarino,et al.  WonderWeb Deliverable D18 Ontology Library , 2003 .

[2]  Jochen Ludewig,et al.  Models in software engineering - an introduction , 2004, Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung.

[3]  Laurian M. Chirica,et al.  The entity-relationship model: toward a unified view of data , 1975, SIGF.

[4]  Gerd Wagner,et al.  A Unified Foundational Ontology and some Applications of it in Business Modeling , 2004, CAiSE Workshops.

[5]  Giancarlo Guizzardi,et al.  On Ontology, ontologies, Conceptualizations, Modeling Languages, and (Meta)Models , 2007, DB&IS.

[6]  Thomas Kühne,et al.  Matters of (Meta-) Modeling , 2006, Software & Systems Modeling.

[7]  Heidi L Rehm,et al.  ClinGen--the Clinical Genome Resource. , 2015, The New England journal of medicine.

[8]  Oscar Pastor,et al.  4th international workshop on ontologies and conceptual modeling (Onto.Com) , 2016, FOIS 2016.

[9]  Pierre-Alain Muller,et al.  Modeling Modeling , 2009, MoDELS.

[10]  Lin Ma,et al.  Unpacking Tacit Knowledge for Requirements Engineering , 2013, Managing Requirements Knowledge.

[11]  Alexander Borgida,et al.  Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems , 1985, On Knowledge Base Management Systems.

[12]  Oscar Pastor,et al.  Conceptual-Model Programming: A Manifesto , 2011, Handbook of Conceptual Modeling.

[13]  Mary K Pulvermacher,et al.  Toward the Use of an Upper Ontology for U.S. Government and U.S. Military Domains: An Evaluation , 2004 .

[14]  Don Cupitt,et al.  The world to come , 1982 .

[15]  Oscar Pastor,et al.  Model-driven architecture in practice - a software production environment based on conceptual modeling , 2007 .

[16]  Alan W. Brown.  Model driven architecture: Principles and practice , 2004, Software and Systems Modeling.

[17]  Peri Loucopoulos,et al.  Conceptual Modeling, Databases, and Case: An Integrated View of Information Systems Development , 1992 .

[18]  Oscar Pastor,et al.  Conceptual Modeling of Human Genome: Integration Challenges , 2012, Conceptual Modelling and Its Theoretical Foundations.

[19]  Isaac Watts.  The World to Come , 2001 .

[20]  Gerd Wagner,et al.  Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story , 2015, Appl. Ontology.

[21]  Jean Bézivin,et al.  Towards a precise definition of the OMG/MDA framework , 2001, Proceedings 16th Annual International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2001).

[22]  Klaus-Dieter Schewe,et al.  Conceptual Modelling and Its Theoretical Foundations , 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[23]  Benoît Combemale,et al.  Modeling modeling modeling , 2010, Software & Systems Modeling.

[24]  Alistair Sutcliffe,et al.  Requirements elicitation: Towards the unknown unknowns , 2013, 2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE).