Architectures for evaluating the quality of information models - A meta and an object level comparison

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1728, Issue , 1999, Pages 490-505

  Schuette, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

DECISION PROBLEMS; INFORMATION MODELING; INFORMATION MODELS; META LEVELS; MODEL EVALUATION; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; RESEARCH FIELDS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 48249113682     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47866-3_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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