Data modeling patterns — Taxonomy

The paper presents the development and meaning of patterns for data modeling. Patterns are also used in the process of learning to design and in data modeling design itself. The purpose of this paper is to present the two faceted taxonomy; other specific contributions are: a) Operational definition of a data model pattern b) Defined practice for minimal data model pattern specification at the M2 MOF abstraction level c) Definitions of data model pattern measures of size and McCabe like complexity.