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Models of Information

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Within this chapter, we describe each of the three major constructs of an information model: classes, attributes and relationships. We then discuss a way of visually representing these constructs and coupling this model of information classes with their use in communicative acts.

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  1. Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK

    Paul Beynon-Davies

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Beynon-Davies, P. (2021). Models of Information. In: Business Analysis and Design. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67962-0_12

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