OpenCASE– A Tool for Ontology-Centred Conceptual Modelling

Abstract

OpenCASE, an original CASE tool supporting conceptual modelling is presented in this paper. The CASE tool has been developed during the research focused on the ontology-centred conceptual modelling. It provides a strong emphasis on terms and their relations while supporting standard notations (now BORM, other notations are planned). The tool has an open plug-in-based architecture founded on the Eclipse platform, which makes the tool modular and extensible. The knowledge base of the models may be accessed via an API and thus used to implement verifications, various calculations (statistics), to transform models to outputs (reports) and to make inner transformations (e.g. normalisation). The architecture of the tool is briefly mentioned as well.

Generated Report of the ORD BORM Model

“…BORM introduces the following types of diagrams: (Pergl, Tůma, 2012) BORM represents every concept with the same symbols in the data structure, the communication or other diagrams. For visual presentation of the information BORM uses simple diagrams that contain only a necessary number of concepts and symbols.…”

“…It is built upon the Eclipse Modelling Framework and it utilizes many of its advanced possibilities. Right now, we have implemented the BORM method's Business Architecture Diagrams and Object Relation Diagrams (Pergl, Tůma, 2012). Fig.…”

“…The presented tool OpenCase (Pergl, Tůma, 2012) follows this modelling method, and uses it as input of transformation. Core transformations are based on the HOT (High Order Transformation) approach published by (Brambilla, Fraternali, Tisi, 2008).…”

Towards Formal Foundations for BORM ORD Validation and Simulation

“…Our practical experience led us to develop our own CASE tool to satisfy our needs in practical BORM usage. The first achievements were published in (Pergl and Tuma, 2012). After building a modelling tool that suited our needs, we started working on implementing simulation of BORM ORD (Object Relation Diagrams) 1 , which is the core of BORM's behaviour aka process description (Knott et al, 2000).…”