Mayr, Heinrich C.Kop, ChristianGlinz, MartinMüller-Luschnat, Günther2019-12-132019-12-1320023-88579-342-3https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/30666The paper argues that the conventional methods for object oriented analysis and conceptual modeling suffer from lacks in requirements elicitation and validation by the end-user. Therefore, an intermediate level called 'conceptual predesign' is introduced between natural language requirements specification and conceptual design. The paper introduces the basic notions of a conceptual predesign model and discusses heuristic rules for their automatic mapping to the conceptual level, e.g. to UML.enText/Conference Paper1617-5468