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The Conception of the Model

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2013)

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Modelling is one of the central activities in Computer Science. Models are used as intermediate artifacts for system construction, as reasoning tools, for explanation, for description of reality, and for prediction of system behaviour. In this paper we introduce a novel conception of model. The range of models spans from elementary to matured models. Depending on the goal, purpose and function of the model within a deployment story (‘Gebrauchsspiel’) we may use the most appropriate model. If goals, purposes and functions are changing then we need to change the model.

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    Bernhard Thalheim

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    Witold Abramowicz

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Thalheim, B. (2013). The Conception of the Model. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38366-3_10

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