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Model; Modeling
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A model is a well-formed, adequate, and dependable artifact that represents other origin artifacts. Its criteria of well-formedness, adequacy, and dependability must be commonly accepted by its community of practice within some context and correspond to the functions that a model fulfills in utilization scenarios and use spectra. As an artifact, a model is grounded in its community’s subdiscipline and is based on elements chosen from the subdiscipline. A conceptual model is based on abstract concepts and their interrelationships [2]. A conceptual database model represents the structure and the integrity constraints of a database within the given utilization scenario.
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The conceptual modeling community widely uses models for constructing information systems. Conceptual modeling is a widely applied practice, and its application has led to a large body of useful constructs and methods for creating artifacts that describe some abstraction of...
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Thalheim, B. (2018). Conceptual Modeling Foundations: The Notion of a Model in Conceptual Modeling. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80780
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