While offering rigor, clarity, and manageability, many approaches to modeling require non-specialists to learn arcane symbols or terminology in order to participate in the modeling activity. This workshop will focus on using cognition to understand existing conceptual modeling techniques, to guide the design of new techniques, and to provide criteria for evaluating techniques and methods. Researchers are devoting increasingly more energy to the problems of behavioral modeling in conjunction with traditional conceptual data modeling. The goals of this workshop are to better understand theoretical aspects of behavioral models, and to use that understanding to suggest transformations that would be helpful in the design of active systems. There will be four half-day tutorials held Monday, November 3.
Tutorials require an additional registration fee.
Participants will learn how to apply the notation in a business environment, and why meta-modeling is important as an underpinning for notations and methodologies. For system developers, analysts, and designers. For practitioners and researchers. A unique approach to information systems modeling is presented based on a generic model that is customized to the management strategies of the organization. ORM is a richer, more expressive methodology than E-R modeling.