Complementary use of modeling grammars

Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-86

  Green, Peter ^a   Rosemann, Michael ^b   Indulska, Marta ^a   Recker, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Maximal ontological completeness; Minimal ontological overlap; Ontological theory of expressiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855453279     PISSN: 09050167     EISSN: 19010990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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