ABSTRACT

The main challenge in designing conceptual model representation is to devise a representation that can be understood by all stakeholders and yet that is expressive enough to handle the varying levels of complexity in the conceptual model.* To complicate matters further, there is no single accepted definition of what a conceptual model is (see Chapter 1) as what is to be represented will surely affect its representation. Given the different definitions for a conceptual model, it is not surprising to see that a wide variety of conceptual model representations have been proposed.