A Template for Defining Enterprise Modelling Constructs

Journal of Database Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 39-73

  Opdahl, Andreas L ^a   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Ctr for Object Technol Appl/Res   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bunge Wand Weber (BWW) model; Object oriented analysis; Ontological analysis and evaluation; Problem domain representation; UML; Unified Modeling Language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BUNGE-WAND-WEBER (BWW) MODEL; OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; ONTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION; PROBLEM DOMAIN REPRESENTATION; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 1542333698     PISSN: 10638016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdm.2004040103     Document Type: Article

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