Tailoring the software process to project goals and environments
ICSE '87 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Engineering
Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Conceptual database design: an Entity-relationship approach
Information modelling: practical guidance
Information modelling: practical guidance
Extending data modeling to cover the whole enterprise
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
Data modeling essentials: analysis, design, and innovation
Data modeling essentials: analysis, design, and innovation
Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
A Model for Software Product Quality
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Quality dimensions of a conceptual view
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Conceptual schema and relational database design (2nd ed.)
Conceptual schema and relational database design (2nd ed.)
Communications of the ACM
Representational congruence and information retrieval: towards an extended model of cognitive fit
Decision Support Systems
Managing organizational data resources: quality dimensions
Information Resources Management Journal
Software engineering (2nd ed.): principles and practice
Software engineering (2nd ed.): principles and practice
Strategies for improving the quality of entity relationship models: a “toolkit” for practitioners
Proceedings of the 2000 information resources management association international conference on Challenges of information technology management in the 21st century
ICIS '00 Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems
Information modeling and relational databases: from conceptual analysis to logical design
Information modeling and relational databases: from conceptual analysis to logical design
Advanced use case modeling: software systems
Advanced use case modeling: software systems
Using a semiotic framework to evaluate UML for the development of models of high quality
Unified modeling language
Organizational concepts and measures for the evaluation of data modeling
Developing quality complex database systems
A Hierarchical Model for Object-Oriented Design Quality Assessment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Case Method: Entity Relationship Modelling
Case Method: Entity Relationship Modelling
Information Engineering: Introduction
Information Engineering: Introduction
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Information, Systems and Information Systems: Making Sense of the Field
Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools
Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques, and Tools
Entity-Relationship Modeling: Foundations of Database Technology
Entity-Relationship Modeling: Foundations of Database Technology
Data Modeling Essentials, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Data Analysis, Design, and Innovation
The Data Modeling Handbook: A Best-Practice Approach to Building Quality Data Models
The Data Modeling Handbook: A Best-Practice Approach to Building Quality Data Models
Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - SWEBOK
Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge - SWEBOK
On the Convergence of the Mizuno--Todd--Ye Algorithm to the Analytic Center of the Solution Set
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Typology of database quality factors
Software Quality Control
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
IEEE Software
Long-term evolution of a conceptual schema at a life insurance company
Annals of cases on information technology
A Methodology for the Design and Transformation of Conceptual Schemas
VLDB '91 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Quality in Requirements Engineering
CAiSe '95 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Using Metrics to Predict OO Information Systems Maintainability
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 Open Conference on Business Process Re-engineering: Information Systems Opportunities and Challenges
Normal Forms for Multidimensional Databases
SSDBM '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Conceptual Modeling Quality - From EER to UML Schemas Evaluation
ER '02 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Evaluating the Quality of Process Models: Empirical Testing of a Quality Framework
ER '02 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Enhancing the Quality of Conceptual Database Specifications through Validation
ER '93 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach: Entity-Relationship Approach
What Makes a Good Data Model? Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models
ER '94 Proceedings of the13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach
Improving Quality in Conceptual Modelling by the Use of Schema Transformations
ER '96 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models - Experience in Research and Practice
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
The Guidelines of Modeling - An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Improving information requirements determination: a cognitive perspective
Information and Management
Why is the snowflake schema a good data warehouse design?
Information Systems
Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology
Information Systems Research
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling--A Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Quantitative evaluation of software quality
ICSE '76 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering
Multidimensional normal forms for data warehouse design
Information Systems
Building UML Class Diagram Maintainability Prediction Models Based on Early Metrics
METRICS '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Metrics
How to quickly find articles in the top IS journals
Communications of the ACM - Information cities
Communications of the ACM - Human-computer etiquette
The DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success: A Ten-Year Update
Journal of Management Information Systems
Evaluating the quality of reference models
ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Measures for assessing dynamic complexity aspects of object-oriented conceptual schemes
ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Measuring the quality of entity relationship diagrams
ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Evaluating quality of conceptual modelling scripts based on user perceptions
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Defining and validating metrics for assessing the understandability of entity-relationship diagrams
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Schema transformations and dependency preservation
AIC'07 Proceedings of the 7th Conference on 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications - Volume 7
On the correlation between process model metrics and errors
ER '07 Tutorials, posters, panels and industrial contributions at the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling - Volume 83
Perceived vs. measured quality of conceptual schemas: an experimental comparison
ER '07 Tutorials, posters, panels and industrial contributions at the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling - Volume 83
Quality Patterns for Conceptual Modelling
ER '08 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
On the evaluation of reference models for software engineering practice
Proceedings of the 2nd India software engineering conference
Improving the quality of process reference models: A quality function deployment-based approach
Decision Support Systems
Collaborative modeling of business processes: a comparative case study
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Towards a maturity model for corporate data quality management
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Empirical Studies in Process Model Verification
Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency II
Constraint acquisition for Entity-Relationship models
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Seven process modeling guidelines (7PMG)
Information and Software Technology
An Empirical Study of Enterprise Conceptual Modeling
ER '09 Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Evaluating the Functionality of Conceptual Models
ER '09 Proceedings of the ER 2009 Workshops (CoMoL, ETheCoM, FP-UML, MOST-ONISW, QoIS, RIGiM, SeCoGIS) on Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Challenging Perspectives
Activity labeling in process modeling: Empirical insights and recommendations
Information Systems
The measurement of perceived ontological deficiencies of conceptual modeling grammars
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Metamodeling the quality of the web development process' intermediate artifacts
ICWE'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web engineering
Quality and perceived usefulness of process models
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
An agile process for the creation of conceptual models from content descriptions
ADBIS'07 Proceedings of the 11th East European conference on Advances in databases and information systems
Understanding the occurrence of errors in process models based on metrics
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
What makes process models understandable?
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
Evaluating the usefulness of a functional size measurement procedure to detect defects in MDD models
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Developing ontology-driven conceptual data models
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web-Services and Applications
CM-Quality: a pattern-based method and tool for conceptual modeling evaluation and improvement
ADBIS'10 Proceedings of the 14th east European conference on Advances in databases and information systems
Insights into enterprise conceptual modeling
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Prediction of business process model quality based on structural metrics
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
The variety engineering method: analyzing and designing information flows in organizations
Information Systems and e-Business Management
A quality model for conceptual models of MDD environments
Advances in Software Engineering - Special issue on new generation of software metrics
Quality assessment of business process models based on thresholds
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Modeling a domain ontology for cultural heritage resources: A user-centered approach
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Random thoughts on multi-level conceptual modelling
The evolution of conceptual modeling
On the evolution of quality conceptualization techniques
The evolution of conceptual modeling
Quality metrics for conceptual models for data warehouse focusing on dimension hierarchies
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Sustainable management of usability information
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
A meta-model-framework for structuring the requirement analysis in process design
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Revisiting Naur's programming as theory building for enterprise architecture modelling
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Thresholds for error probability measures of business process models
Journal of Systems and Software
Modeling semantic information in engineering applications: a review
Artificial Intelligence Review
Evaluating quality of conceptual models based on user perceptions
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Representation theory versus workflow patterns – the case of BPMN
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
An approach to test-driven development of conceptual schemas
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Valuing evaluation: methodologies to bridge research and practice
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Evidential assessment of software technologies
Conceptual modeling principles for crowdsourcing
Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Multimodal crowd sensing
MEDI'12 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Model and Data Engineering
Research Review: A Systematic Literature Review on the Quality of UML Models
Journal of Database Management
Journal of Systems and Software
Formal workflow design analytics using data flow modeling
Decision Support Systems
Using a functional size measurement procedure to evaluate the quality of models in MDD environments
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - In memoriam, fault detection and localization, formal methods, modeling and design
Information and Software Technology
Checking feasible completeness of domain models with natural language queries
APCCM '12 Proceedings of the Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling - Volume 130
Enforcement of conceptual schema quality issues in current integrated development environments
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A decision support tool to define scope in IT service management process assessment and improvement
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
Effective data warehouse for information delivery: a literature survey and classification
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Information and Software Technology
Assessing the quality of large-scale data standards: A case of XBRL GAAP Taxonomy
Decision Support Systems
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An international standard has now been established for evaluating the quality of software products. However there is no equivalent standard for evaluating the quality of conceptual models. While a range of quality frameworks have been proposed in the literature, none of these have been widely accepted in practice and none has emerged as a potential standard. As a result, conceptual models continue to be evaluated in practice in an ad hoc way, based on common sense, subjective opinions and experience. For conceptual modelling to progress from an "art" to an engineering discipline, quality standards need to be defined, agreed and applied in practice. This paper conducts a review of research in conceptual model quality and identifies the major theoretical and practical issues which need to be addressed. We consider how conceptual model quality frameworks can be structured, how they can be developed, how they can be empirically validated and how to achieve acceptance in practice. We argue that the current proliferation of quality frameworks is counterproductive to the progress of the field, and that researchers and practitioners should work together to establish a common standard (or standards) for conceptual model quality. Finally, we describe some initial efforts towards developing a common standard for data model quality, which may provide a model for future standardisation efforts.