挑战数据库建模中唯模式论,主张回归信息源与模型融合的实践。
Disentangling the schema turn: Restoring the information base to conceptual modelling
- 提出回归信息基底与概念模型融合的建模新路径
- 论证现代技术已支持更自动化、实证驱动的建模方式
- 适合关注建模范式革新或系统设计方法的研究者
当前计算机科学中的主流概念建模实践高度聚焦于脱离信息基底的概念模式,导致概念模式常被简称为概念模型。这种以模式为中心的倾向在几乎所有数据库教材中得到固化,我们称之为‘模式转向’。本文旨在解构这一转向,揭示其非根本性。论证现代技术使得融合模式与信息基底的包容性建模成为可能,从而支持更自动化、基于实证的建模实践。同时指出,概念建模的可行空间远超现有认知。以bCLEARer为例,说明新范式需依赖基于流水线的新建模技术。因此,模式转向对信息基底的彻底排斥,或许只是演进过程中的暂时偏离。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
If one looks at contemporary mainstream development practices for conceptual modelling in computer science, these so clearly focus on a conceptual schema completely separated from its information base that the conceptual schema is often just called the conceptual model. These schema-centric practices are crystallized in almost every database textbook. We call this strong, almost universal, bias towards conceptual schemas the schema turn. The focus of this paper is on disentangling this turn within (computer science) conceptual modeling. It aims to shed some light on how it emerged and so show that it is not fundamental. To show that modern technology enables the adoption of an inclusive schema-and-base conceptual modelling approach, which in turn enables more automated, and empirically motivated practices. And to show, more generally, the space of possible conceptual modelling practices is wider than currently assumed. It also uses the example of bCLEARer to show that the implementations in this wider space will probably need to rely on new pipeline-based conceptual modelling techniques. So, it is possible that the schema turn's complete exclusion of the information base could be merely a temporary evolutionary detour.
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