Paper Info
Title
Conceptual modelling: Knowledge acquisition and model abstraction
Abstract
Conceptual modelling has gained a lot of interest in recent years and simulation modellers are particularly interested in understanding the processes involved in arriving at a conceptual model. This paper contributes to this understanding by discussing the artifacts of conceptual modelling and two specific conceptual modelling processes: knowledge acquisition and model abstraction. Knowledge acquisition is the process of finding out about the problem situation and arriving at a system description. Model abstraction refers to the simplifications made in moving from a system description to a conceptual model. Soft Systems Methodology has tools that can help a modeller with knowledge acquisition and model abstraction. These tools are drawing rich pictures, undertaking analyses `one¿, `two¿, `three¿, and constructing a root definition and the corresponding purposeful activity model. The use of these tools is discussed with respect to a case study in health care.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/WSC.2008.4736161
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
conceptual modelling processes:,health care,specific conceptual modelling process,corresponding purposeful activity model,conceptual modelling,soft systems methodology,case study,model abstraction,knowledge acquisition,conceptual model,computer aided analysis,system description,modelling,soft system methodology,simulation,mean squared error
Abstraction,Soft systems methodology,Systems engineering,Conceptual model,Computer science,Simulation,Knowledge acquisition,Conceptual model (computer science)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-2708-6
20
1.05
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K Kotiadis117812.36
Stewart Robinson258350.51