Abstract
Having spent more than a quarter of a century in practical modelling work, I fear that, in many cases, we tend to model the wrong things during the wrong work phases for the wrong reasons using the wrong instruments. Searching remedies for these problems, we will look into the basic reasons for introducing concepts to be used in modelling as well as an architecture within which to apply selected concepts in a profitable manner.
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Nilsson, B.E. (1999). On Why to Model What and How: Concepts and Architecture for Change. In: Nilsson, A.G., Tolis, C., Nellborn, C. (eds) Perspectives on Business Modelling. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58458-9_14
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