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Free Download Conceptual Models: Core to the Design of Interactive Applications (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics) by Jeff Johnson, Austin Henderson
English | April 28, 2024 | ISBN: 3031508513 | 156 pages | MOBI | 5.95 Mb
This book presents readers with an exploration of the concept of Conceptual Models and argues that they are core to achieving good design of interactive applications that are easy, effective, and enjoyable to use. The authors’ years of experience helping companies create interactive software applications revealed that interactive applications built without Conceptual Models generally result in fraught production processes and designs that are confusing and difficult to learn, remember, and use. Instead, the book shows that Conceptual Models can be a central link between the elements involved in the use of interactive applications: people’s tasks (domains), their plans for performing those tasks, the use of applications in the plans, the conceptual structure of applications, the presentation of the conceptual model (i.e., the user interface), the terms used to describe it, its implementation, and the learning that people must do to use the application. Readers will learn how putting a Conceptual Model at the core of the design and development process can pay rich dividends: designs are simpler, more coherent, and better aligned with users’ tasks; unnecessary features are avoided; documentation is easier, development is faster and cheaper; customer uptake is improved; and the need for training and customer support is reduced.

Free Download Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues
by Piotr Stalmaszczyk
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3957433029 | 302 Pages | PDF | 1.91 MB

Free Download Conceptual Realism and Historicity: Brandom Versus Hegel
by Norman Schultz
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004714790 | 299 Pages | PDF | 8.3 MB

Free Download Katrien Hertog, "The Complex Reality of Religious Peacebuilding: Conceptual Contributions and Critical Analysis"
English | ISBN: 0739139495 | 2010 | 284 pages | EPUB | 288 KB
This insightful book focuses on the multifaceted subject of sustainable religious peacebuilding. Katrien Hertog discusses the ways in which religious actors can utilize resources to prevent violent conflict from occurring, reduce conflict when it does happen, and rebuild bridges between sides in after conflict has ceased. She examines the emergence of the field of religious peacebuilding, developing a conceptual framework that outlines how aspects of religious organizations can contribute to effectual peacebuilding and creating a screening model that allows readers to analyze the resources and obstacles to peacebuilding in-depth.

Free Download Conceptual Modeling – ER ’96: 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Cottbus, Germany, October 7-10, 1996 Proceedings By Charles W. Bachman (auth.), Bernhard Thalheim (eds.)
1996 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 3540617841 | PDF | 9 MB
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER ’96, held in Cottbus, Germany, in October 1996.The volume presents three invited contributions together with 29 revised full papers selected from 110 submissions. The papers cover all current aspects of the entity-relationship approach and conceptual modeling; they are organized in sections on advanced schema design, processes, query languages, representation, integration, principles of database design, transformation, enhanced modelling, capturing design information, and evolution.

Free Download Conceptual Modeling for Advanced Application Domains: ER 2004 Workshops CoMoGIS, CoMWIM, ECDM, CoMoA, DGOV, and eCOMO, Shanghai, China, November 8-12, 2004. Proceedings By Jihong Guan (auth.), Shan Wang, Katsumi Tanaka, Shuigeng Zhou, Tok-Wang Ling, Jihong Guan, Dong-qing Yang, Fabio Grandi, Eleni E. Mangina, Il-Yeol Song, Heinrich C. Mayr (eds.)
2004 | 696 Pages | ISBN: 3540237224 | PDF | 10 MB
This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of six internationl workshops held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2004, in Shanghai, China in November 2004.The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on geographical conceptual modeling; spatial storage, indexing, and data consistency; spatial representation and spatial services; spatial queries and retrieval, Web information integration; Web information mining; conceptual models for Web information; Web information systems and Webservices; systems evolution support in conceptual modeling; temporal and evolution aspects in Internat-based information systems; schema evolution and versioning in data management; conceptual modeling of agents; agents applications; digital government systems; digital government technologies; e-business systems requirements engineering; and e-business processes and infrastructure.

Free Download Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings By Iris Reinhartz-Berger (auth.), Lois Delcambre, Christian Kop, Heinrich C. Mayr, John Mylopoulos, Oscar Pastor (eds.)
2005 | 504 Pages | ISBN: 3540293892 | PDF | 7 MB
Conceptual modeling is fundamental to any domain where one must cope with complex real-world situations and systems because it fosters communication – tween technology experts and those who would bene?t from the application of those technologies. Conceptual modeling is the key mechanism for und- standing and representing the domains of information system and database – gineering but also increasingly for other domains including the new "virtual" e-environmentsandtheinformationsystemsthatsupportthem.Theimportance of conceptual modeling in software engineering is evidenced by recent interest in "model-drivenarchitecture"and"extremenon-programming".Conceptualm- eling also plays a prominent rolein various technical disciplines and in the social sciences. The Annual International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (referred to as the ER Conference) provides a central forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which conceptual modeling is the major emphasis. In keeping with this tradition, ER 2005, the 24th ER Conference, spanned the spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual m- eling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into e?ective (information) system implementations. Moreover, new areas of conceptual modeling incl- ing Semantic Web services and the interdependencies of conceptual modeling with knowledge-based, logical and linguistic theories and approaches were also addressed.

Free Download Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application: 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2006, Aalborg, Denmark, July 16-21, 2006. Proceedings By Nicola Guarino (auth.), Henrik Schärfe, Pascal Hitzler, Peter Øhrstrøm (eds.)
2006 | 460 Pages | ISBN: 3540358935 | PDF | 6 MB
th The 14 International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2006) was held in Aalborg, Denmark during July 16 – 21, 2006. Responding to the Call for Papers, we received 62 papers from 20 different countries, representing six different continents. This clearly indicates the international nature of the ICCS community as well as the widespread interest which was spawned by the previous conferences. By a thorough review process, 24 papers were selected to be included in this volume. In addition, six invited speakers made contributions which can be found in the first section of this volume. The theme of ICCS 2006–Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application– points to a dual focus of interest that is also reflected in the constellation of papers. From the beginning of the planning of this conference, we focused on inspirational sources that have led to the current state of research in our community, by tracing important historical influences which daily effect work in representing knowledge and in handling representations of conceptual structures. At the same time, we also focused on ways in which these legacies are employed to further advance theory and practice in the field of knowledge representation and processing. With this volume, we believe that a valuable contribution to both aspects of this field is being made. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of submitted papers, to the members of the Editorial Board and the Program Committee for all their work and valuable comments.

Free Download Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Theory and Practice: ER 2006 Workshops BP-UML, CoMoGIS, COSS, ECDM, OIS, QoIS, SemWAT, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 6-9, 2006. Proceedings By Dirk Draheim, Gerald Weber (auth.), John F. Roddick, V. Richard Benjamins, Samira Si-said Cherfi, Roger Chiang, Christophe Claramunt, Ramez A. Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Hyoil Han, Martin Hepp, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Vojislav B. Mišić, Geert Poels, Il-Yeol
2006 | 460 Pages | ISBN: 3540477039 | PDF | 7 MB
This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2006, in Tucson, AZ, USA in November 2006.The 39 revised full papers presented together with the outlines of three tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. Topics addressed by the workshops are best practices of UML (BP-UML 2006), conceptual modeling for geographic information systems (CoMoGIS 2006), conceptual modeling of service-oriented software systems (CoSS 2006), evolution and change in data management (ECDM 2006), ontologizing industrial standards (OIS 2006), quality of information systems (QoIS 2006), and semantic Web applications: theory and practice (SemWAT 2006).

Free Download Conceptual Modeling for Traditional and Spatio-Temporal Applications: The MADS Approach By Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, Esteban Zimányi (auth.)
2006 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 3540301534 | PDF | 3 MB
From environmental management to land planning and geo-marketing, the number of application domains that may greatly benefit from using data enriched with spatio-temporal features is expanding very rapidly. Unfortunately, development of new spatio-temporal applications is hampered by the lack of conceptual design methods suited to cope with the additional complexity of spatio-temporal data. This complexity is obviously due to the particular semantics of space and time, but also to the need for multiple representations of the same reality to address the diversity of requirements from highly heterogeneous user communities. Conceptual design methods are also needed to facilitate the exchange and reuse of existing data sets, a must in geographical data management due to the high collection costs of the data. Yet, current practice in areas like geographical information systems or moving objects databases does not include conceptual design methods very well, if at all.This book shows that a conceptual design approach for spatio-temporal databases is both feasible and easy to apprehend. While providing a firm basis through extensive discussion of traditional data modeling concepts, the major focus of the book is on modeling spatial and temporal information. Parent, Spaccapietra and Zimányi provide a detailed and comprehensive description of an approach that fills the gap between application conceptual requirements and system capabilities, covering both data modeling and data manipulation features. The ideas presented summarize several years of research on the characteristics and description of space, time, and perception. In addition to the authors’ own data modeling approach, MADS (Modeling of Application Data with Spatio-temporal features), the book also surveys alternative data models and approaches (from industry and academia) that target support of spatio-temporal modeling.The reader will acquire intimate knowledge of both the traditional and innovative features that form a consistent data modeling approach. Visual notations and examples are employed extensively to illustrate the use of the various constructs. Therefore, this book is of major importance and interest to advanced professionals, researchers, and graduate or post-graduate students in the areas of spatio-temporal databases and geographical information systems. "For anyone thinking of doing research in this field, or who is developing a system based on spatio-temporal data, this text is essential reading." (Mike Worboys, U Maine, Orono, ME, USA)"The high-level semantic model presented and validated in this book provides essential guidance to researchers and implementers when improving the capabilities of data systems to serve the actual needs of applications and their users in the temporal and spatial domains that are so prevalent today." (Gio Wiederhold, Stanford U, CA, USA)