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Books and Manuals for ConceptBase
The user manual is available both in
HTML and
PDF
format. There are also three tutorials: the
first one
shows how to define classes, instances, queries, rules and constraints; the
second tutorial focusses on metamodeling,
and the third tutorial discusses the export of ConceptBase models to GraphViz.
User manual and tutorial are also included in the download file
of ConceptBase.
This 400+ pages textbook is a guide to the foundations of method engineering, a developing field
concerned with the definition of techniques for designing software systems. The approach is
based on metamodeling, the construction of a model about a collection of other models. The
book applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies, each describing a solution to a
problem in a specific domain. Suitable for classroom use, the book is also useful as a reference for practitioners.
The six case study chapters all use ConceptBase.
The "CD-ROM" sources for some of the chapters are available via
GitLab.
These slides can be used for a course based on the above textbook, or for any course that introduces
into metamodeling. The slides are made available both as PDF and ODF and are distributed under
a Creative Commons License.
This YouTube Channel features short videos from screen captures to highlight how certain tasks can
be performed by the ConceptBase user interface.
A tutorial held at the NEMO 2015 Summerschool on Next-Generation Enterprise Modeling. Slides are included
under a Creative Commons License. Telos source models for 4EM, ArchiMate and process-modeling examples are
included as well. They work with a recent ConceptBase system. The script for the case studies is
available here.
We are happy to learn about research/applications, in which ConceptBase.cc plays a role. If you publish
work that is based on ConceptBase.cc, then please include one or more of the following references in your
paper:
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M. Jarke, R. Gallersdörfer, M. Jeusfeld, M. Staudt, S. Eherer:
ConceptBase - a deductive object base for meta data management.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 4, 2, 1995, pp. 167-192,
doi:10.1007/BF00961873.
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M. Jeusfeld:
Metamodeling and method engineering with ConceptBase.
In Jeusfeld, M., Jarke, M., Mylopoulos, J. (eds): Metamodeling for Method Engineering, pp. 89-168, The MIT Press, 2009.
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M. Jeusfeld (ed.):
ConceptBase.cc User Manual.
Available online
http://conceptbase.sourceforge.net/userManual85/CB-Manual.pdf.
Note that you need to be registered to the CB-Forum to access some of the above resources.
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Contact: M. Jeusfeld,
University of Skövde, Sweden
2026-10-21/M.Jeusfeld
