ConceptBase (a.k.a. ConceptBase.cc) is a deductive and object-oriented
database management system
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developed at
University of Aachen
RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...
and
University of Skövde
The University of Skövde (in Swedish: Högskolan i Skövde, HIS) is a state university in Skövde, Sweden. The University of Skövde was granted university status in 1983 and is now an academic institution with general and specialised educationa ...
. It is mainly used for conceptual modeling and
metamodeling
A metamodel or surrogate model is a model of a model, and metamodeling is the process of generating such metamodels. Thus metamodeling or meta-modeling is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and ...
in the domain of
software engineering
Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development.
A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...
and related domains. ConceptBase.cc is free and open-source software.
ConceptBase combines the following features:
* Object-oriented concepts such as classes and inheritance
* Deductive rules evaluated by a
Datalog
Datalog is a declarative logic programming language. While it is syntactically a subset of Prolog, Datalog generally uses a bottom-up rather than top-down evaluation model. This difference yields significantly different behavior and properties ...
engine
* Active rules conforming to the
event condition action Event condition action (ECA) is a short-cut for referring to the structure of active rules in event driven architecture and active database systems.
Such a rule traditionally consisted of three parts:
*The ''event'' part specifies the signal that t ...
(ECA) paradigm
* Recursive function definitions
*
Metamodeling
A metamodel or surrogate model is a model of a model, and metamodeling is the process of generating such metamodels. Thus metamodeling or meta-modeling is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and ...
with arbitrarily many abstraction levels (metaclasses, meta metaclasses)
ConceptBase implement
O-Telos which is
a variant of the knowledge representation Telos.
See also
*
MetaCASE tool A metaCASE tool is a type of application software that provides the possibility to create one or more modeling methods, languages or notations for use within the process of software development. Often the result is a modeling tool for that language ...
References
* M. Jarke, R. Gallersdörfer, M.A. 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.
* Jeusfeld, M.A. (2009): ''Metamodeling and method engineering with ConceptBase''. In Jeusfeld, M.A., Jarke, M.,
Mylopoulos, J. (eds)
Metamodeling for Method Engineering pp. 89–168. The MIT Press, Open-access Edition.
External links
ConceptBase
Object-oriented database management systems
Free database management systems
Tilburg University
RWTH Aachen University
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