Enhancing the expressiveness of the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontology

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2791-2798

  Rosemann, Michael ^a   Wyssusek, Boris ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bunge Wand Weber ontology; Conceptual modeling; Modeling grammars; Ontological foundations

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; META MODEL; ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION; POINT OF DEPARTURES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; THEORY DEVELOPMENT;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870013088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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