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An Empirical Study of Enterprise Conceptual Modeling

Authors:

Ateret Anaby-Tavor,

Rachel Bellamy,

Matthew Callery,

Michael Desmond,

Sophia Krasikov,

Jacqueline VriesAuthors Info & Claims

ER '09: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

Pages 55 - 69

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_7

Published: 10 November 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Business analysts, business architects, and solution consultants use a variety of practices and methods in their quest to understand business. The resulting work products could end up being transitioned into the formal world of software requirement definitions or as recommendations for all kinds of business activities. We describe an empirical study about the nature of these methods, diagrams, and home-grown conceptual models as reflected in real practice at IBM. We identify the models as artifacts of "enterprise conceptual modeling". We study important features of these models, suggest practical classifications, and discuss their usage. Our survey shows that the "enterprise conceptual modeling" arena presents a variety of descriptive models, each used by a relatively small group of colleagues. Together they form a "long tail" that extends from "drawings" on one end to "standards" on the other.

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ER '09: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

November 2009

514 pages

ISBN:9783642048395

Editors:
Alberto H. Laender
Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Horizonte, Brazil 31270-901
,
Silvana Castano
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, DICo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20135
,
Umeshwar Dayal
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, USA 94304
,
Fabio Casati
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Povo (Trento), Italy 38050
,
José Palazzo Oliveira
Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brasil 91.501-970

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Tort AOlivé APastor J(2013)Former Students' Perception of Improvement Potential of Conceptual Modeling in PracticeProceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling - Volume 821710.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_32(395-402)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_32
Mangano NSukaviriya NLaViola JLéon JAlexa MDo E(2010)InkusProceedings of the Seventh Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Symposium10.5555/1923363.1923389(143-150)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1923363.1923389

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