An international standard has now been established for evaluating the quality of software
products. However there is no equivalent standard for evaluating the quality of conceptual …

Within the information systems discipline, reference modeling is a complex and
heterogeneous research field. This paper reviews prior work based on a research …

Enterprise Systems (ES) are comprehensive off-the-shelf packages that have to be
configured to suit the requirements of an organization. Most ES solutions provide reference …

Classification is an important tool for perception and can be found in numerous scientific
disciplines. Several application areas of classification are described in the context of …

Abstract Within the Information Systems field, reference models are well-known for many
years. The aim of this paper is to survey and to describe reference models for business …

Evaluating a reference model is a demanding task. Not only that reference models inherit
the problems well known from the evaluation of conceptual models in general. Furthermore …

Little academic work exists on managing reference model development and measuring
reference model quality, yet there is a clear need for higher quality reference models. We …

Within the information systems field, reference models have been known for many years. A
reference model is a conceptual framework and may be used as a blueprint for information …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the question of what is an appropriate
enterprise resource planning (ERP) reference model for specifying areas of change in the …

Today valuable business, scientific and cultural information is created and stored digitally.
However, the sustained availability and accessibility of digital information cannot be taken …