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In developing information systems, conceptual modeling is among the most fundamental means. The importance attributed to conceptual modeling has not only given rise to a lot of modeling methods, but also to the “yet another modeling approach (YAMA)" syndrome and the “not another modeling approach (NAMA)" hysteria. Criticism of conceptual modeling methods usually targets their lacking of theoretical foundations. In response to such criticism, various approaches towards theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling have been proposed so far. One of the recent responses to the Quest for theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling is the reference to the philosophical ontology. The currently most prominent of diverse approaches towards ontological foundations of conceptual mOdeling appears to be the BungeWand-Weber (BWW) ont이 ogy. Recent approaches attempt to regard BWW ontology as another conceptual data model as well as a criterion for evaluating various conceptual models. However, unfortunatelY, relatively few researches have been made on interoperability between the Entity-Relationship (ER) model , which is the most dominant conceptual data model, and ontology based model. In this paper, we investigate the interoperability between ontology and the ER model. In detail we (i) reclassify components of ER model with respect to ontology concepts, (ii) identify some components that cannot be directly represented in ontology notation, and (iii) present alternative representations to the components to aCQuire ontologically clear ER diagrams. Additionally, we (iv) present a set of mapping rules for converting the ontologically clear ER diagram into the corresponding ontology. In a case study, we show the process of converting an ER diagram for a concise Project Management System (PMS) into the ont이 ogically clear ER diagram and the corresponding ontology. We also describe an experiment that we undertook to test whether users understand the Ontologically-Clear ER diagram better.

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Abstract
 1. 서론
 2. 관련연구
  2.1 ER 모델에 대한 연구
  2.2 B\NN 프레임워크에 관한 연구
  2.3 온톨로지와 ER 모델의 대응에 대한 연구
 3. 온톨로지와 상호운용 가능한 ER 모델 도출 방안
  3.1 연구 범위 및 절차
  3.2 온톨로지 관점에서 명확한 ERD(OC ERD: Ontologically-Clear) 작성 규칙
  3.3. OC ERD의 온톨로지 변환
 4. 실험
  4.1 실험 절차 및 사전 실험
  4.2 결과 해석
 5. 결론
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• 이동훈 [ Donghoon Lee | 국민대학교 비즈니스IT전문대학원 석사과정 ]
• 김남규 [ Namgyu Kim | 국민대학교 경영정보학부 조교수 ] 교신저자
• 정인환 [ Inhwan Jung | 한성대학교 컴퓨터공학과 부교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  JITAM [Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management]

• 간기

  격월간

• pISSN

  1598-6284

• eISSN

  2508-1209

• 수록기간

  1999~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 005 DDC 005