Authors: Roland Kaschek
Tags: 2013, conceptual modeling
Models, according to common understanding, facilitate to make and share references. A reference is a deictic activity whose point of origin differs from its target. The activity of modeling rests on taking a reference’s point of origin as a substitute for its target. In this paper I discuss two aspects of modeling, namely abstraction and direction-of-fit. I am going to show that representation, rather than abstraction, is key to modeling and that the direction-of-fit is not inherent to a model.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41924-9_8
