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Towards Grounded Enterprise Modelling

verfasst von : Henderik A. Proper, Marija Bjeković, Bas van Gils, Stijn J. B. A. Hoppenbrouwers

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the concept of grounding enterprise models in terms of an underlying fact-based model, as a way to add more meaning to these enterprise models. We motivate the need for doing so in terms of a fundamental understanding of conceptual modelling, and enterprise modelling in particular. We also clarify why, next to e.g. adding more meaning by using formal semantics, or mapping the model to a foundational ontology, it remains important to ground enterprise models on fact-based models that capture the natural way in which people converse about/in their domain. The presented concepts are illustrated by means of a running example, while also reflecting on, and summarising, the results of earlier experiments in grounding different enterprise models.

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Fußnoten
1
In principle, we would prefer to use the word “semantics” here. However, since the word “semantics”, in our computer science oriented community, tends to be equated to only mean “formal semantics”, we will use the word meaning.
 
2
More colloquially also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
 
3
To keep the diagram clean, we have omitted all of the so-called reference schemes, which identify how e.g. a Doctor or a Patient is referred to in this domain.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Towards Grounded Enterprise Modelling
verfasst von
Henderik A. Proper
Marija Bjeković
Bas van Gils
Stijn J. B. A. Hoppenbrouwers
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73805-5_15