Toward a social ontology for conceptual modeling

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1347-1358

  March, Salvatore T ^a   Allen, Gove N ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Meta model; Ontology

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS; META MODEL; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; SOCIAL ONTOLOGY; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84900484212     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03470     Document Type: Article

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