Enterprise Ontology Theory and Methodology /

• Main Author: Dietz, Jan L. G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computers.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Models and Principles.; IT in Business.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.

If one thing catches the eye in almost all literature about (re)designing or (re)engineering of enterprises, it is the lack of a well-founded theory about their construction and operation. Often even the most basic notions like "action" or "process" are not precisely defined. Nex...

Table of Contents:

• Outline of the Book
• What is Enterprise Ontology?
• An Explanatory Case
• Foundations
• Factual Knowledge
• A World Ontology Specification Language
• The Notion of System
• The Notion of Model
• Ontology and Enterprise Engineering
• The theory
• The Operation Axiom
• The Transaction Axiom
• The Composition Axiom
• The Distinction Axiom
• The Organization Theorem
• The CRISP Model
• The Methodology
• The Modeling Method
• The Interaction Model
• The Process Model
• The Action Model
• The State Model
• The Interstriction Model.