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Information Systems Engineering and Knowledge-Based Enterprise Modelling: Towards Foundations of Theory

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The enterprise information systems engineering methodologies do not yet have a theoretical framework. One and only exception is data model design technique which is based on the internal modelling paradigm, because it uses concept of functional dependence in the normalization procedure. A theoretical soundness of knowledge-based approach towards enterprise IS engineering is assured by the use of principles of second-order cybernetics. An enterprise is considered as an entirety of self-managed activities correlated by management functional dependencies. New internal modelling views—a control view and a self-managing view—are included for capturing the management transactions—the key components of the subject domain knowledge. A normalized systems development life cycle is defined as required component of knowledge-based IS development.

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    Saulius Gudas

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Gudas, S. (2017). Information Systems Engineering and Knowledge-Based Enterprise Modelling: Towards Foundations of Theory. In: Kavoura, A., Sakas, D., Tomaras, P. (eds) Strategic Innovative Marketing. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33865-1_59

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