Towards a reference model management system for business engineering

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Thomas;Masahiro Horiuchi;Masao Tanaka

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Information Systems (IWi), Saarbücken (Germany);Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan;Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in reference models for the construction of specific models. The orientation on the content of a reference model can increase the efficiency of processes in business engineering projects. Despite this, the use of reference models in the field of business engineering has not established itself in practice. This is due to the field of conflict between research and practice, in which reference modeling is at home. There is still a deficit in knowledge about the use and problems inherent in the implementation of reference models despite the array of theoretical concepts. Accordingly, in the past years the supply-sided development of reference models predominant in the science world has distanced itself from their demand-sided use in business practice. The article analyses this problem and presents an approach to the management of reference models. The task to be mastered using the proposed approach will be conceptually concretized with a framework and prototypically implemented in the form of a reference model management system.