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Information System Engineering has made the assumption that an Information System is supposed to capture some excerpt of the real world history and hence has concentrated on systems modelling. Very little attention has been paid to the conceptual modelling process. However the emphasis on system modelling is shifting to process modelling. The particular process modelling approach being presented in this paper advocates the definition of a way-of-working (i.e. process models) to control and guide developers. The paper introduces a classification of the various kinds of evolution of objects and presents a decision-oriented process meta model to structure ways-of-working. We also describe some guidelines, related to our classification of object evolutions, to support method engineers in the task to define a way-of-working.
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Moreno, M., Rolland, C., Souveyet, C. (1994). A generic approach to support a way-of-working definition. In: Wijers, G., Brinkkemper, S., Wasserman, T. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 811. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58113-8_183
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