The REA ontology to supplement teaching data flow diagrams

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 1954-1963

  Parker, Kevin R ^a   Trimmer, Ken ^a   Lerouge, Cindy ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Flow Diagrams; REA Modeling; REA Ontology; Systems Analysis and Design

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONTEXTUAL LEARNING; CORE COMPONENTS; DATA FLOW; DATA FLOW DIAGRAMS; MENTAL CONCEPTS; MODELING APPROACH; ONTOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; PROCESS MODELING; STUDENT LEARNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS;

CURRICULA; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA FLOW GRAPHS; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869851016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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