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Level of Detail and Understandability of Enterprise Models – Better Understandability through Higher Complexity?

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2014)

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Enterprise Models are an important tool for IT-Governance. Diverse stakeholders are working with such models. This work presents a contribution to the study of model understandability. The model comprehension of individuals having basic knowledge of business administration and computer science has been measured in an experiment. The level of detail (high/low) has been chosen for the independent variable of the experiment. The study bases on a model that has been derived from the ArchiSurance case study of the OpenGroup. This model is part of the Archi tool published by Bolton University. The results show a higher model understandability at a higher level detail and thus higher model complexity.

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Lantow, B. (2014). Level of Detail and Understandability of Enterprise Models – Better Understandability through Higher Complexity?. In: Johansson, B., Andersson, B., Holmberg, N. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11370-8_4

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