Description
Conceptual models play an increasingly important role in all phases of the information systems life cycle. Despite being vital for developing information systems, the modeling process is often resource consuming and faulty. Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis addresses the problems by covering methodological issues and reference models for several industries, as well as concepts and techniques introduced with concrete examples.
Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis covers all aspects of reference modeling, and provides foundations for model-driven systems development. This book helps to efficiently reuse conceptual models and explains best practice models for manufacturing, retail, and electronic business.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Peter Fettke (Ed.)
Peter Fettke obtained a Master’s Degree in Information Systems (Diplom-Wirtschaftsinformatiker) from the University of Münster, Germany. Since April 2006 he is a Senior Researcher in Information Systems, Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany. Peter has taught and researched previously at the Technical University of Chemnitz and the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, both Germany. His research interests include information systems analysis and design, especially the use of conceptual modeling and component-based system paradigm. Peter has published numerous articles on reference modeling, conceptual modeling and component-based engineering in both national and international journals and conference proceedings. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT) as well as the Journal of System and the Management Sciences (JSMS) and serves as a regular reviewer for the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), and International Journal of Interoperability in Business Information Systems (IBIS). Recently, he has finished his PhD thesis on structuralist foundations for the ontological evaluation of reference models.
Peter Loos (Ed.)
Professor Dr. Peter Loos (1960) is director of the Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and head of the Chair of Business Administration and Information Systems at Saarland University. His research activities include business process management, information modeling, enterprise systems, software development as well as implementation of information systems. Professor Loos studied business administration and information systems at the University of Saarland and completed his degree (Dipl.-Kfm.) in 1984. He wrote his PhD thesis on the issue of data modeling in manufacturing systems – awarded with the Dr.-Eduard-Martin-Preis – in 1991 as a research assistant at the Institute for Information Systems (directed by Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer). In 1997, Professor Loos received the venia legendi in business administration. During his earlier career Professor Loos had been chair of information systems & management at the University of Mainz (2002-2005), chair of information systems & management at Chemnitz University of Technology (1998-2002), deputy chair at University of Münster as well as lecturer (Privatdozent) at Saarland University. Furthermore, he had worked for 6 years as manager of the software development department at the software and consulting company IDS Scheer AG. Professor Loos has written several books, contributed to 30 books and published more than 100 papers in journals and proceedings.