Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptual-modeling work is important ...

Data modeling is the process of defining datapoints and struc­tures at a detailed or abstract level to communicate information about the data shape, content, and relationships to target audiences.

Underneath the subject area list that comprises the enterprise conceptual data model comes the heart of the matter. This next layer should be comprised of a set of canonical data models. These ...

Faiz Currim, Sudha Ram, Modeling Spatial and Temporal Set-Based Constraints During Conceptual Database Design, Information Systems Research, Vol. 23, No. 1 (March 2012), pp. 109-128 ...