Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems

Antoni Olive is a professor of information systems at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. He has worked in this field during over 25 years. His main interests have been, and are, conceptual modeling, requirements engineering, information systems design and databases. Antoni Olive was the recipient of the DKE-ER Elsevier award for his contribution to the Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2003) and was Program Co-chair of ER 2006 - the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling.

• Entity Types.- Relationship Types.- Cardinality Constraints.- Particular Kinds of Relationship Type.- Reification.- Generic Relationship Types.- Derived Types.- Integrity Constraints.- Taxonomies.- Domain Events.- Action Request Events.- State Transition Diagrams.- Statecharts.- Use Cases.- Case Study.- Metamodeling.- The MOF and XMI.

"The book is one of the most informative and comprehensive texts on conceptual modeling published to date. It is very appropriate for students of advanced level university courses in information systems, requirements engineering, or in data base design, as well as for qualified practitioners in the field." - Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden "Antoni Olive has taken the time to create a book that is certain to become essential reading for students of conceptual modeling in information systems engineering." - Arne Solvberg, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway "The text is advanced in notions and concepts, but is highly educational and informative, containing very interesting ideas explained and illustrated in detail. The most interesting aspect is that the text combines formalization with the fundamentals of information systems engineering under a holistic approach." - Lefteris Angelis, Computing Reviews, May 2008