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Before going into formal presentations of OPM and SysML as conceptual system modeling languages and OPM as a systems engineering methodology, we discuss the theoretical aspects underlying the framework of systems, systems architecture, and systems engineering, within which conceptual modeling is a valuable intellectual activity.
A conceptual model is a formal model, in which every entity being modeled in the real world has a transparent and one-to-one correspondence to an object in the model.
Simmons (1994)
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From this point on, the OPDs are not shaded, as they are accompanied by their corresponding OPL paragraphs. The colors of the various OPL phrases in the OPL here are as they appear in OPCAT. In subsequent OPLs, reserved OPL phrases are in non-bold Arial font, and non-reserved phrases—in Bold Arial.
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Dori, D. (2016). Conceptual Modeling: Purpose and Context. In: Model-Based Systems Engineering with OPM and SysML. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3295-5_9
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