Activity modeling and behavior modeling
Proc. of the IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on Information systems design methodologies: improving the practice
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
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)
Realizing Business Components, Business Operations and Business Services
CEC-EAST '04 Proceedings of the E-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business, IEEE International Conference
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
Impact of service orientation at the business level
IBM Systems Journal
How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: ER 2004
Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures
Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures
An algorithm for identifying the abstract syntax of graph-based diagrams
VLHCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
An approach to test-driven development of conceptual schemas
Data & Knowledge Engineering
An ontology for enterprise and information systems modelling
Applied Ontology
An ontology for enterprise and information systems modelling
Applied Ontology
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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 often 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 characterizations, and distinguish them from drawings. Specifically we look into context, type, methods and complexity to determine enterprise conceptual models 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 spectrum that extends from ''drawings'' on one end to ''standards'' on the other.