"Conceptual modeling has long been recognized as the primary means to enable so- ware development in information systems and data engineering. Nowadays, conc- tual modeling has become fundamental to any domain in which organizations have to cope with complex, real-world systems. Conceptual modeling fosters communi- tion between information systems developers and end-users, and it has become a key mechanism for understanding and represent ..."
Conceptual Modeling - ER '97 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 3-5, 1997. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by DavidW. Embley , Robert C. Goldstein Paperback, 484 Pages, Published 1997 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-540-63699-1, ISBN: 3-540-63699-4