Published article based on the MAPQUAL project and my master thesis
John Krogstie and I wrote an article describing the work on MAPQUAL, as well as the current work on integrated models, quality aspects of these and the case-study in the medical domain. This is my first published article – which I find very enjoyable:) Unfortunately, due to copyright issues I can’t publish the full-text here, however I dare to attach the abstract. The article will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) later this year – before summer. Thanks to John Krogstie who is very supporting and collaborating throughout every aspects of my work!
Integrated Quality of Models and Quality of Maps
Alexander Nossum, John Krogstie
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Abstract.
Conceptual modeling traditionally focuses on a high level of
abstraction. Even if geographical aspects such as location is included in several
enterprise modeling frameworks [26], it is not common to have geographical
aspects included in conceptual models. Cartography is the science of
visualizing geographical information in maps. Traditionally the field has not
included conceptual relationships and the primary focus is on a fairly low
abstraction level. Both cartography and conceptual modeling have developed
guidelines for obtaining high quality visualizations. SEQUAL is a quality
framework developed for understanding quality in conceptual models and
modeling languages. In cartography such counterparts are not common to find.
An attempt to adapt SEQUAL in the context of cartographic maps has been
performed, named MAPQUAL. The paper presents MAPQUAL. Differences
between quality of maps and quality of conceptual models are highlighted,
pointing to guidelines for combined representations which are the current focus
of our work. An example of such combined use is presented indicating the
usefulness of a combined framework.
[26] = Zachman (1987)
