INTRODUCTION TO THE FORMALIZATION OF DATA MODELING METHOD

This article provides an overview and a description of problem areas of an ongoing research. It will start with the presentation of the complexity of the information systems development, the stages of its development, the participants of the process and it will also provide an overview of known issues in this area. Stages that are closely related to this research, a part of the analysis phase and phase design are discussed citing some of the class methods that result in a certain artifact within the phase. Since one of the problems cited is a lack of formalized knowledge needed to create the data model, the paper presents an overview of existing concepts of different methods of entities and links that can be supplemented and modified by further research. The aim is to propose a possible selection of concepts of the given methods which can be used to create a conceptual modeling grammar for the purpose of building a conceptual model and a gradual evolution in the logical and physical model. The artifact which is particularly considered as a possible domain and codomain of grammar action is the data dictionary.