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On Roles of Models in Information Systems

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The increasing penetration of computers into all aspects of human activity makes it desirable that the interplay among software, data and the domains where computers are applied is made more transparent. An approach to this end is to explicitly relate the modeling concepts of the domains, e.g., natural science, technology and business, to the modeling concepts of software and data. This may make it simpler to build comprehensible integrated models of the interactions between computers and non-computers, e.g., interaction among computers, people, physical processes, biological processes, and administrative processes. This chapter contains an analysis of various facets of the modeling environment for information systems engineering. The lack of satisfactory conceptual modeling tools seems to be central to the unsatisfactory state-of-the-art in establishing information systems. The chapter contains a proposal for defining a concept of information that is relevant to information systems engineering.

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    Selmin Nurcan

  2. Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris 1, Paris, 75013, France

    Camille Salinesi

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    Carine Souveyet

  4. , Department of Information Systems, University of Geneva, route de Drize 7, Carouge, 1227, Switzerland

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Sølvberg, A. (2010). On Roles of Models in Information Systems. In: Nurcan, S., Salinesi, C., Souveyet, C., Ralyté, J. (eds) Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12544-7_2

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