Design Principles for Reference Modeling: Reusing Information Models by Means of Aggregation, Specialisation, Instantiation, and Analogy

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Author(s): Jan vom Brocke (European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Munster, Germany)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 30
Source title: Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Peter Fettke (Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany)and Peter Loos (Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-054-7.ch003

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Information Systems / Business Process Management / Business Science Reference

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With the design of reference models, an increase in the efficiency of information systems engineering is intended. This is expected to be achieved by reusing information models. Current research focuses mainly on configuration as one principle for reusing artefacts. According to this principle, all variants of a model are incorporated in the reference model facilitating adaptations by choices. In practice however, situations arise whereby various requirements to a model are unforeseen: Either results are inappropriate or costs of design are exploding. This paper introduces additional design principles that aim towards giving more flexibility to both the design and application of reference models.

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