A Pragmatic Approach to Collaborative Semantic Modelling
Christoph Richter, Heidrun Allert, Vassiliy Tchoumatchenko, Ivan Furnadziev, Tania Krumova Vasileva, Dimitris Kotzinos, Giorgos Flouris, Vassilis Christophides, Juha Löytöläinen · SensePublishers eBooks · 2012
Conceptual modelling has attracted a lot of research interest in recent years and various tools, such as Cmap 1 , Compendium 2 , FreeStyler 3 , and Belvedere 4 have been developed to support the collaborative creation and work with various kinds of visual models. This interest is hardly surprising, given the prominent role of conceptual modelling across a large variety of professional and educational domains. As physical or digital artefacts, conceptual models provide important means for the explication, communication, and scrutinizing of each other’s ideas and concepts. In order to guide the modelling process and to support mutual understanding among participants, semi-formal notations or modelling languages are used regularly both in professional, training as well as educational settings. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.