Authors: Andreas L. Opdahl
Tags: 2006, conceptual modeling
Several current developments indicate that IS and enterprise models and ontologies will become increasingly important in the years to come, including the OMG’s model-driven architecture (MDA) initiative (www.omg.org/mda), the semantic web initiative (Berners-Lee et al. 2001) and increasingly modeldriven enterprise systems. Given its long tradition of modelling research, the IS field should play a central role in this development. Yet the IS field has produced few broad theories that can guide the direction of modelling research, assist in interpreting findings and serve as a core for knowledge to accumulate around. A few frameworks for language and model evaluation are much used, including the SEQUAL framework (e.g., Krogstie 2002), based on the work of Lindland, Sindre and Sølvberg (1994). But evaluation is only a part of the modelling picture, and few broader theories are available. The FRISCO framework was an early theory proposal (Falkenberg et al. 1998), but it is unfortunately used too little today.Read the full paper here: https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=sjis
