Compositional enterprise modeling and decision support

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-160

  Ba, Sulin ^a   Lang, Karl R ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic model building; Compositional modeling; Decision support systems; Enterprise modeling; Knowledge components; Knowledge management; Knowledge reuse; Model integration; Organizational knowledge base design

Indexed keywords

EID: 59049089805     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-007-0068-7     Document Type: Article

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