TY - GEN
T1 - Category structure of language types common to conceptual modeling languages
AU - van der Linden, Dirk
AU - Proper, Henderik A.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - We investigate the category structure of categories common to conceptual modeling languages (i.e., the types used by languages such as actor, process, goal, or restriction) to study whether they more closely approximate a discrete or graded category. We do this for three distinct groups: students, beginning modelers and experienced modelers. We find that overall most categories exhibit more of a graded structure, with experienced modelers displaying this even more strongly than the other groups. We discuss the consequences of these results for (conceptual) modeling in general, and in particular argue that when a model contains graded categories, it should follow that the (conceptual) validity of instantiations of it should be judged in a graded fashion as well.
AB - We investigate the category structure of categories common to conceptual modeling languages (i.e., the types used by languages such as actor, process, goal, or restriction) to study whether they more closely approximate a discrete or graded category. We do this for three distinct groups: students, beginning modelers and experienced modelers. We find that overall most categories exhibit more of a graded structure, with experienced modelers displaying this even more strongly than the other groups. We discuss the consequences of these results for (conceptual) modeling in general, and in particular argue that when a model contains graded categories, it should follow that the (conceptual) validity of instantiations of it should be judged in a graded fashion as well.
KW - Categorization
KW - Conceptual modeling
KW - Model semantics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904556206&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904556206
SN - 9783662437445
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 317
EP - 331
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, 15th International Conference, BPMDS 2014, 19th International Conference, EMMSAD 2014 Held at CAiSE 2014, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 15th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2014 and 19th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2014
Y2 - 16 June 2014 through 17 June 2014
ER -