Template-based definition of information systems and enterprise modelling constructs

Business Systems Analysis with Ontologies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 105-129

  Opdahl, Andreas ^a   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 78649909820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-339-5.ch005     Document Type: Chapter

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