期刊名称：International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics
印刷版ISSN：2085-6830
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：4
出版社：School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
摘要：Data models provide the foundation to organization’s activities since they support the organization’s systems and data. Therefore, the quality of the data models is foremost. We describe a methodology to measure the quality of conceptual data models created using a fact oriented data modeling called Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM). The measurement method is based on the framework to measure the quality of conceptual model by Lindland et al. Four components are to be considered in the measurement: domain, model, language, and audience interpretation. The quality are measured on three aspects: syntactic quality (measured by syntax correctness), semantic quality (measured by feasible validity and feasible completeness), and pragmatic quality (measured by feasible comprehension). The method is then used to determine the quality of several FCO-IM conceptual data models that were created using a pattern language of conceptual data models, a new method in data modeling that we are currently researching. The method contributes in data modeling area by providing a quantitative and instructive way of measuring the quality of conceptual data models, especially in FCO-IM.
关键词：conceptual model; conceptual data model; data modeling; FCO-IM; measurement;pattern; quality
