Integrated Modeling Environments in Organizations: An Empirical Study

Information Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 64-84

  Wright, Gordon P ^a   Chaturvedi, Alok R ^a   Mookerjee, Radha V ^b   Garrod, Susan ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision Support Systems; Integrated Modeling Environments; Model Management Systems; Structured Modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SEMANTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTER-BASED MODELING; COVARIANCE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED MODELING ENVIRONMENT; MODEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MODELING ENVIRONMENTS; STRUCTURED MODEL;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0032381657     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.9.1.64     Document Type: Article

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