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Handbook of Conceptual Modeling

Author : David W. Embley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364215865X
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Conceptual Modeling by : David W. Embley

Download or read book Handbook of Conceptual Modeling written by David W. Embley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual modeling is about describing the semantics of software applications at a high level of abstraction in terms of structure, behavior, and user interaction. Embley and Thalheim start with a manifesto stating that the dream of developing information systems strictly by conceptual modeling – as expressed in the phrase “the model is the code” – is becoming reality. The subsequent contributions written by leading researchers in the field support the manifesto's assertions, showing not only how to abstractly model complex information systems but also how to formalize abstract specifications in ways that let developers complete programming tasks within the conceptual model itself. They are grouped into sections on programming with conceptual models, structure modeling, process modeling, user interface modeling, and special challenge areas such as conceptual geometric modeling, information integration, and biological conceptual modeling. The Handbook of Conceptual Modeling collects in a single volume many of the best conceptual-modeling ideas, techniques, and practices as well as the challenges that drive research in the field. Thus it is much more than a traditional handbook for advanced professionals, as it also provides both a firm foundation for the field of conceptual modeling, and points researchers and graduate students towards interesting challenges and paths for how to contribute to this fundamental field of computer science.

Applying Conceptual Models of Nursing

Author : Dr. Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, ScD (hon), RN, FAAN, ANEF
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 082618006X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Applying Conceptual Models of Nursing written by Dr. Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, ScD (hon), RN, FAAN, ANEF and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical resource for nursing students, educators, researchers, and practitioners provides content about the conceptual models of nursing that are used as organizing frameworks for nursing practice, quality improvement projects, and research. Chapters break these abstract models down into their core concepts and definitions. Discussions of each model provide examples of practical application so readers can employ these organizing frameworks. This is the only book to apply these models to quality improvement projects, particularly those in DNP programs and clinical agencies. For every conceptual model, diagrams, information boxes, and other visual elements clarify and reinforce information. Each chapter features applications of the conceptual models to a wide variety of examples, including nursing practice assessment and an intervention, a literature review and descriptive qualitative, instrument development, correlational, experimental, and mixed-method studies. Other valuable features include faculty templates for practice, quality improvement, and research methodologies for each conceptual model, along with extensive references. Key Features: Focuses on applying conceptual models in practice Demonstrates how a wide range of nursing conceptual models are applied to nursing practice, quality improvement, and research PowerPoint templates for each conceptual model avaliable to faculty Provides abundant diagrams, boxes, and other visual elements to clarify and reinforce information Includes an extensive list of references for each conceptual model

Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems

Author : Antoni Olivé
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540393900
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems written by Antoni Olivé and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant textbook explains in detail the principles of conceptual modeling independently from particular methods and languages and shows how to apply them in real-world projects. The author covers all aspects of the engineering process from structural modeling over behavioral modeling to meta-modeling, and completes the presentation with an extensive case study based on the osCommerce system. Written for computer science students in classes on information systems modeling as well as for professionals feeling the need to formalize their experiences or to update their knowledge, Olivé delivers here a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the modeling process. His book is complemented by lots of exercises and additional online teaching material.

Conceptual Models for Nursing Practice

Author : Joan Riehl-Sisca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Models for Nursing Practice written by Joan Riehl-Sisca and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conceptual Models

Author : Jeff Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031021959
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Models written by Jeff Johnson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People make use of software applications in their activities, applying them as tools in carrying out tasks. That this use should be good for people--easy, effective, efficient, and enjoyable--is a principal goal of design. In this book, we present the notion of Conceptual Models, and argue that Conceptual Models are core to achieving good design. From years of helping companies create software applications, we have come to believe that building applications without Conceptual Models is just asking for designs that will be confusing and difficult to learn, remember, and use. We show how Conceptual Models are the central link between the elements involved in application use: people's tasks (task domains), the use of tools to perform the tasks, the conceptual structure of those tools, the presentation of the conceptual model (i.e., the user interface), the language used to describe it, its implementation, and the learning that people must do to use the application. We further show that putting a Conceptual Model at the center of the design and development process can pay rich dividends: designs that are simpler and mesh better with users' tasks, avoidance of unnecessary features, easier documentation, faster development, improved customer uptake, and decreased need for training and customer support. Table of Contents: Using Tools / Start with the Conceptual Model / Definition / Structure / Example / Essential Modeling / Optional Modeling / Process / Value / Epilogue

Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling

Author : Dimitris Karagiannis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030935477
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling written by Dimitris Karagiannis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the significance of domain-specific conceptual modeling through new research and development approaches that are manifested in each of the chapters. They include novel modelling methods and tools that emphasize the recent results accomplished and their adequacy to assess specific aspects of a domain. Each chapter offers detailed instructions on how to build models in a particular domain, such as product-service engineering, enterprise engineering, digital business ecosystems, and enterprise modelling and capability management. All chapters are enriched with case studies, related information, and tool implementations. The tools are based on the ADOxx metamodelling platform and are provided free of charge via OMiLAB. Furthermore, the book emphasizes possible future developments and potential research directions. The collection of works presented here will benefit experts and practitioners from academia and industry alike, including members of the conceptual modeling community as well as lecturers and students.

Analysis and Evaluation of Conceptual Models of Nursing

Author : Jacqueline Fawcett
Publisher : F. A. Davis Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Analysis and Evaluation of Conceptual Models of Nursing by : Jacqueline Fawcett

Download or read book Analysis and Evaluation of Conceptual Models of Nursing written by Jacqueline Fawcett and published by F. A. Davis Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the development of nursing knowledge for nurses and nursing students. Discusses components of the structural hierarchy of contemporary nursing knowledge, such as the metaparadigm, theories, and empirical indicators, and outlines conceptual models such as King's General Systems Framework and Roy's Adaptation Model. This third edition includes discussion on the substantive and process elements of implementing conceptual-model based nursing practice. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309073022
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluid flow and solute transport within the vadose zone, the unsaturated zone between the land surface and the water table, can be the cause of expanded plumes arising from localized contaminant sources. An understanding of vadose zone processes is, therefore, an essential prerequisite for cost-effective contaminant remediation efforts. In addition, because such features are potential avenues for rapid transport of chemicals from contamination sources to the water table, the presence of fractures and other channel-like openings in the vadose zone poses a particularly significant problem, Conceptual Models of Flow and Transport in the Fractured Vadose Zone is based on the work of a panel established under the auspices of the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics. It emphasizes the importance of conceptual models and goes on to review the conceptual model development, testing, and refinement processes. The book examines fluid flow and transport mechanisms, noting the difficulty of modeling solute transport, and identifies geochemical and environmental tracer data as important components of the modeling process. Finally, the book recommends several areas for continued research.

Conceptual Model-Based Problem Solving

Author : Yan Ping Xin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462091048
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Model-Based Problem Solving written by Yan Ping Xin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you having trouble in finding Tier II intervention materials for elementary students who are struggling in math? Are you hungry for effective instructional strategies that will address students’ conceptual gap in additive and multiplicative math problem solving? Are you searching for a powerful and generalizable problem solving approach that will help those who are left behind in meeting the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM)? If so, this book is the answer for you. • The conceptual model-based problem solving (COMPS) program emphasizes mathematical modeling and algebraic representation of mathematical relations in equations, which are in line with the new Common Core. • “Through building most fundamental concepts pertinent to additive and multiplicative reasoning and making the connection between concrete and abstract modeling, students were prepared to go above and beyond concrete level of operation and be able to use mathematical models to solve more complex real-world problems. As the connection is made between the concrete model (or students’ existing knowledge scheme) and the symbolic mathematical algorithm, the abstract mathematical models are no longer “alien” to the students.” As Ms. Karen Combs, Director of Elementary Education of Lafayette School Corporation in Indiana, testified: “It really worked with our kids!” • “One hallmark of mathematical understanding is the ability to justify,... why a particular mathematical statement is true or where a mathematical rule comes from” (http://illustrativemathematics.org/standards). Through making connections between mathematical ideas, the COMPS program makes explicit the reasoning behind math, which has the potential to promote a powerful transfer of knowledge by applying the learned conception to solve other problems in new contexts. • Dr. Yan Ping Xin’s book contains essential tools for teachers to help students with learning disabilities or difficulties close the gap in mathematics word problem solving. I have witnessed many struggling students use these strategies to solve word problems and gain confidence as learners of mathematics. This book is a valuable resource for general and special education teachers of mathematics. - Casey Hord, PhD, University of Cincinnati

Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering

Author : John Krogstie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540726772
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering written by John Krogstie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles contributions from renowned researchers covering all aspects of conceptual modeling, on the occasion of Arne Sølvberg’s 67th birthday. Friends of this pioneer in information systems modeling contribute their latest research results from such fields as data modeling, goal-oriented modeling, agent-oriented modeling, and process-oriented modeling. The book reflects the most important recent developments and application areas of conceptual modeling, and highlights trends in conceptual modeling for the next decade.

Community Practice

Author : Marie Weil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135405581
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Community Practice written by Marie Weil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the only book that gives you a comparison of model frameworks and a critique of multiple perspectives. Community Practice: Conceptual Models (along with its companion volume, Community Practice: Models in Action) illustrates the diverse ways that community practice is conceived and delineates both the central and subtle differences among models to guide community assessment, action planning, and practice. By knitting together the complex ideas from the social sciences and community practice, this book shows how to combine these ideas to improve teaching, practice, analysis, and research for social work faculty; social work students; practitioners in community work, administration, and social planning; and faculty of related disciplines. The scope of Community Practice: Conceptual Models is broad, providing the first historical report on model development and implementation since 1965. Its chapters present diverse views on community practice approaches and provide the compilation, critique, and analysis of current models --while illustrating how these approaches developed over time. Included is Rothman’s long-awaited revision and elaboration of his 1970s classic, three models conceptual framework. Other vital topics you learn about include: collaborative community development social planning, reform movements, and social action ecological theory in community practice a feminist response and critique to Rothman’s approaches to community intervention a comparison of community practice in the U.S. and U.K., with an emphasis on nonracist practice and community-based service development Community Practice: Conceptual Models offers challenges and indicates directions for practice, theory elaboration, testing, and research and shows community practice in relation to characteristics such as goals and desired outcomes, change strategies, targets of change, primary constituencies, and focus or scope of concern. This book provides the strongest perspectives on community practice to help you improve your practice, assessments, action plans, and research.

Conceptual Models

Author : Jeff Johnson
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608457494
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Models written by Jeff Johnson and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People make use of software applications in their activities, applying them as tools in carrying out tasks. That this use should be good for people--easy, effective, efficient, and enjoyable--is a principal goal of design. In this book, we present the notion of Conceptual Models, and argue that Conceptual Models are core to achieving good design. From years of helping companies create software applications, we have come to believe that building applications without Conceptual Models is just asking for designs that will be confusing and difficult to learn, remember, and use. We show how Conceptual Models are the central link between the elements involved in application use: people's tasks (task domains), the use of tools to perform the tasks, the conceptual structure of those tools, the presentation of the conceptual model (i.e., the user interface), the language used to describe it, its implementation, and the learning that people must do to use the application. We further show that putting a Conceptual Model at the center of the design and development process can pay rich dividends: designs that are simpler and mesh better with users' tasks, avoidance of unnecessary features, easier documentation, faster development, improved customer uptake, and decreased need for training and customer support.

Conceptual Modeling

Author : Peter P. Chen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540488545
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Modeling written by Peter P. Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of selected papers presented at the Symposium on Conceptual Modeling, which was held in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, th 1997, immediately before the 16 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’97), which was held at UCLA. A total of eighteen papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. These papers are written by experts in the conceptual modeling area and represent the most current thinking of these experts. This volume also contains the summaries of three workshops that were held on 6 7 December 1997, immediately after the ER’97 conference at UCLA. The topics of these three workshops are: • Behavioral Modeling • Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information Seeking • What Is the Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling? Since these topics are not only very important but also very timely, we think it is appropriate to include the summary of these three workshops in this volume. Those readers interested in further investigating topics related to the three workshops can either look up the individual paper published on the Web or contact the authors directly. The summary paper by Chen at the beginning of this volume also includes the summary of several interesting speeches at the Symposium.

Conceptual Models

Author : Jeff Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031508521
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Models written by Jeff Johnson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conceptual Design

Author : Mogens Myrup Andreasen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319198394
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Design written by Mogens Myrup Andreasen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximising reader insights into the theory, models, methods and fundamental reasoning of design, this book addresses design activities in industrial settings, as well as the actors involved. This approach offers readers a new understanding of design activities and related functions, properties and dispositions. Presenting a ‘design mindset’ that seeks to empower students, researchers, and practitioners alike, it features a strong focus on how designers create new concepts to be developed into products, and how they generate new business and satisfy human needs. Employing a multi-faceted perspective, the book supplies the reader with a comprehensive worldview of design in the form of a proposed model that will empower their activities as student, researcher or practitioner. We draw the reader into the core role of design conceptualisation for society, for the development of industry, for users and buyers of products, and for citizens in relation to public systems. The book also features original contributions related to exploration, conceptualisation and product synthesis. Exploring both the power and limitations of formal design process models, methods, and tools viewed in the light of human ingenuity and cognition, the book develops a unique design mindset that adds human understanding to the list of methods and tools essential to design. This insight is distilled into useful mindset heuristics included throughout the book.

Metrics for Software Conceptual Models

Author : Marcela Genero
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260505
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Metrics for Software Conceptual Models written by Marcela Genero and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that “measuring quality is the key to developing high-quality software systems” is gaining relevance. Moreover, it is widely recognised that the key to obtaining better software systems is to measure the quality characteristics of early artefacts, produced at the conceptual modelling phase. Therefore, improving the quality of conceptual models is a major step towards the improvement of software system development. Since the 1970s, software engineers had been proposing high quantities of metrics for software products, processes and resources but had not been paying any special attention to conceptual modelling. By the mid-1990s, however, the need for metrics for conceptual modelling had emerged. This book provides an overview of the most relevant existing proposals of metrics for conceptual models, covering conceptual models for both products and processes. Contents:Towards a Framework for Conceptual Modelling Quality (M Piattini et al.)A Proposal of a Measure of Completeness for Conceptual Models (O Dieste et al.)Metrics for Use Cases: A Survey of Current Proposals (B Bernárdez et al.)Defining and Validating Metrics for UML Class Diagrams (M Genero et al.)Measuring OCL Expressions: An Approach Based on Cognitive Techniques (L Reynoso et al.)Metrics for Datawarehouses Conceptual Models (M Serrano et al.)Metrics for UML Statechart Diagrams (J A Cruz-Lemus et al.)Metrics for Software Process Models (F García et al.) Readership: Senior undergraduates and graduate students in software engineering; PhD students, researchers, analysts, designers, software engineers and those responsible for quality and auditing. Key Features:Presents the most relevant existing proposals of metrics for conceptual models, covering conceptual models for both products and processesProvides the most current bibliography on this subjectThe only book to focus on the quality aspects of conceptual modelsKeywords:Conceptual Model;Quality;Metrics;UML;OCL;Empirical Research

The Dimensions of Health: Conceptual Models

Author : John Hjelm
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449660991
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Dimensions of Health: Conceptual Models written by John Hjelm and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dimensions of Health: Conceptual Models is an introductory text that examines the five dimensions of personal health: physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. Each chapter: -Provides context for the study of that dimension -Includes examples of how experts think about that dimension -Presents two or more models developed by scholars and professionals -Discusses identifiable characteristics associated with each dimension By incorporating a variety of perspectives, The Dimensions of Health enables students to formulate their own answer to the question, “What is health?” This text is perfect for use in conjunction with a personal health text or as a standalone for any personal health course.