Towards tool support for information model variant management-a design science approach

Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2098-2109

  Delfmann, Patrick ^a   Knackstedt, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design Science; Meta Modeling; Model Variant Management; Multi perspective Information Modeling; Tool Support

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATION MECHANISMS; DESIGN SCIENCE; ENTERPRISE ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MODELING; INFORMATION MODELS; METAMODELING; MODEL ELEMENTS; MODELLING LANGUAGE; MODELLING TOOLS; REORGANISATION; SEARCH PROCESS; TOOL SUPPORT; USER GROUPS;

DESIGN; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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