On Domain Conceptualization

Authors

Proper H.A., Guizzardi G.

Reference

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 411 LNBIP, pp. 49-69, 2021

Description

The growing role of models across the life-cycle of enterprises, and their information and software systems, fuels the need for a more fundamental reflection on the foundations of modeling. Two of the core theories of the discipline of enterprise engineering (Factual Information (FI) theory and the Model Universe (MU) theory) aim at contributing to these foundations. The latest versions of the FI- and MU-theories have recently been published. Offering an analysis and criticism to them enables us to continue the important debate on the semiotic, ontological, and general philosophical foundations of domain modeling and enterprise modeling in particular. A core concept in the field of domain modeling is the conceptualization of the domain. In this paper, we specifically focus on the development of a deeper understanding of domain conceptualizations, while reflecting on the way this notion is positioned in the FI- and MU-theories.

Link

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74196-9_4