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The chapter presents problems related to information modelling with a focus on syntactic versus semantic modelling, model building and model validation. It is shown that an information model (IM) behaves like a theory of the modelled universe of discourse (UoD) and that it can be used to reason about the properties of the UoD. In addition, information modelling is shown to be a suitable basis for an integrated and uniform description of various perspectives of the given UoD and that hierarchies of IMs can be used to fill the gap between the conceptual and the operational descriptions of the UoD.
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Giumale, C.A., Kahn, H.J. (1996). A View of Information Modelling. In: Bergé, JM., Levia, O., Rouillard, J. (eds) Meta-Modeling. Current Issues in Electronic Modeling, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1347-2_3
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