Towards a Preliminary Ontology for Conceptual Model Quality Evaluating

The main reason why conceptual modeling is still considered an "art" rather than a mature engineering discipline is that the quality evaluation system of conceptual model has not been well established. In order to address this problem, based on ISO/IEC 25012, 25020 standards, and combined with extensive research and experiences of experts, we propose the preliminary ontology for classifying quality characteristics of conceptual models. This paper discussed its application in establishing a standard for conceptual model quality model and typical evaluation process. As a starting point, the ontology can effectively support the establishment of conceptual model quality evaluation standard, and is available to improve the quality evaluation methods.