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DeepTelos: Multi-level Modeling with Most General Instances

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2016)

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Multi-level modeling aims to reduce redundancy in data models by defining properties at the right abstraction level and inheriting them to more specific levels. We revisit one of the earliest such approaches, Telos, and investigate what needs to be added to its axioms to get a true multi-level modeling language. Unlike previous approaches, we define levels not with numeric potencies but with hierarchies of so-called most general instances.

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  1. University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Manfred A. Jeusfeld

  2. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

    Bernd Neumayr

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  1. CEDRIC-CNAM & ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France

    Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

  2. Kyoto University , Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  3. Drexel University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  4. Nagoya University , Nagoya, Japan

    Shuichiro Yamamoto

  5. Tokyo Institute of Technology , Tokyo, Japan

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Jeusfeld, M.A., Neumayr, B. (2016). DeepTelos: Multi-level Modeling with Most General Instances. In: Comyn-Wattiau, I., Tanaka, K., Song, IY., Yamamoto, S., Saeki, M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9974. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_15

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