Activity modeling and behavior modeling
Proc. of the IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on Information systems design methodologies: improving the practice
Why Enterprise Modelling? An Explorative Study into Current Practice
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling--A Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
Automatic generation of intelligent diagram editors
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
A framework for modeling and implementing visual notations with applications to software engineering
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Quality in conceptual modeling
How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: ER 2004
Inkus: a freehand method of creating business process models
Proceedings of the Seventh Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Symposium
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Business analysts, business architects, and solution consultants use a variety of practices and methods in their quest to understand business. The resulting work products could end up being transitioned into the formal world of software requirement definitions or as recommendations for all kinds of business activities. We describe an empirical study about the nature of these methods, diagrams, and home-grown conceptual models as reflected in real practice at IBM. We identify the models as artifacts of "enterprise conceptual modeling". We study important features of these models, suggest practical classifications, and discuss their usage. Our survey shows that the "enterprise conceptual modeling" arena presents a variety of descriptive models, each used by a relatively small group of colleagues. Together they form a "long tail" that extends from "drawings" on one end to "standards" on the other.