In this paper we explore how IF BarwiseSeligman’s information flow theory [3] and FCA Formal Concept Analysis [20] may be used to help conceptual data modeling. A fundamental observation we make is that the process of conceptual data modeling is a distributed system in the sense of BarwiseSeligman’s information flow theory, i.e., the Channel theory [3], and therefore the process of conceptual data modeling per se, the correctness of it, and thus the usefulness of the resultant database depends solely on the existence of a relevant information channel hereafter IF channel that takes the real world domain being modelled and the conceptual data model as components. Based upon this conviction, we explore how such an IF channel may be constructed and how it guides conceptual data modeling.

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