Combining cybernetics and conceptual modeling: The concept of variety in organizational engineering

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1228-1233

  Rosenkranz, Christoph ^a   Holten, Roland ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Organizational engineering; Variety

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYBERNETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CYBERNETIC THEORIES; ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING; REPORTING SYSTEM;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 35248877961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1244002.1244269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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