http://www.ormfoundation.org/files/folders/orm_2009/tags/positionalism/default.aspxTags: positionalismenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://www.ormfoundation.org/files/folders/orm_2009/entry1928.aspxWed, 11 Nov 2009 10:49:16 GMT9d039735-a311-4a8d-9c49-a0bb2572af9e:1928Ken Evans0<p><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:18pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">Positionalism of Relations and Its Consequences for Fact-Oriented Modelling</span></b></p><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:18pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span></b><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">C.&nbsp;Maria&nbsp;Keet</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span> : <span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy <br /></span><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"><br />Abstract.</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"> Natural language-based conceptual modelling as well as the use of diagrams have been essential components of fact-oriented modelling from its inception. However, transforming natural language to its corresponding object-role modelling diagram, and vv., is not trivial. This is due to the more fundamental problem of the different underlying ontological commitments concerning <i>positionalism</i> of the fact types. The natural language-based approach adheres to the <i>standard view</i> whereas the diagram-based approach has a <i>positionalist</i> commitment, which is, from an ontological perspective, incompatible with the former. This hinders seamless transition between the two approaches and affects interoperability with other conceptual modelling languages. One can adopt either the limited standard view or the positionalist commitment with fact types that may not be easily verbalisable but which facilitates data integration and reusability of conceptual models with ontological foundations.<br /><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;;FONT-SIZE:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;">LNCS 5872, p. 735 ff.</span> <p>&nbsp;</p>