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Sourcing is evolving into a strategic process for organizing and fine-tuning the firm's value chain. Companies need to strategic sourcing in order to survive within the industry, particularly hospitals which are facing rapidly competition... more
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      Conceptual ModellingService-Dominant LogicStrategic Sourcing
This book uses sports as a metaphor for research methods. It focuses on how to use and build frameworks for empirical research. The frameworks are analogous to a "play", which is connected to a unique purpose and directs the movement of... more
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      Public AdministrationSocial Research Methods and MethodologyResearch Methods and MethodologyResearch Methodology
This report sets out the findings of a cross-cultural collaborative project to develop an understanding of the role that the Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKMHG) plays in enabling mātauranga-informed management of the... more
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      Cross-Cultural CollaborationsEnvironmental ManagementConceptual ModellingIndigenous Knowledge
We introduce a new theory of concepts conceived as structured abstract entities. The theory is based on the key notion of Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL), known as TIL construction. The rich procedural semantics of TIL makes it... more
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      OntologyLogicConceptual Modelling
With increased globalization and modernization of people’s lives, lifestyle behavior has changed substantially in many countries around the world. This change has brought two key behavior modifications: a reduction in physical activity... more
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      Community DevelopmentSports ManagementConceptual ModellingPublic Health
In this paper, we expose the legal theories underlying two important classes of Legal Core Ontologies and show how these ontologies inherit both limitations and benefits (such as explanatory power) of their underlying theories. We do that... more
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      Information SystemsComputer ScienceInformation ScienceOntology
Service contracts bind parties legally, regulating their behavior in the scope of a (business) service relationship. Given that there are legal consequences attached to service contracts, understanding the elements of a contract is key to... more
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      Information SystemsInformation Systems (Business Informatics)ContractsOntology
By examining the trans-disciplinary neologisms called "terminological junctions" in writings of Arakawa and Gins, one may find adequate conditions for making visible, and perhaps resolving a central paradox in the thinking of Gilles... more
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      Cognitive ScienceMusicPhilosophyPhilosophy of Mind
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      Computer ScienceOperations ResearchConceptual ModellingVisual Communication
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      Computer ScienceNatural Language ProcessingRequirements EngineeringConceptual Modelling
Conceptual models are used in a variety of areas within Computer Science, including Software Engineering, Databases and AI. A major bottleneck in broadening their applicability is the time it takes to build a conceptual model for a new... more
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      Software EngineeringNatural Language ProcessingConceptual ModellingExperience Design
The digitalization of the economy and technological innovations are pushing central banks to investigate new forms of digital money. The concept and design of digital currencies have been investigated by central banks for some time.... more
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      Information SystemsInformation ScienceOntologyApplied Ontology
Data warehouses (DW) play a decisive role in providing analytical information for decision making. Multidimensional modeling is a special approach to modeling data, considered the foundation for building data warehouses. With the... more
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      Information SystemsInformation Systems (Business Informatics)Management Information SystemsApplied Ontology
Recently, viewpoint resolution methods which make conflicts productive for requirements engineering have gained popularity in organisational information systems. However, when extending such methods beyond organisational boundaries to... more
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      Information SystemsRequirements EngineeringConceptual ModellingCommunicative action
This paper explores the influence of electronic governance (e-governance) on sustainable development. Using a soft systems methodology, it maps the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the decision-making... more
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      GovernanceConceptual ModellingE-Governance
— It is no surprise that the notion of situation is key to situation awareness. The development of the discipline can thus benefit from careful analysis of the notion. In this paper, we approach this by proposing an ontology of situations... more
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      Information SystemsCognitive ScienceSoftware EngineeringInformation Systems (Business Informatics)
Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 14 (4): 531-542.
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      BusinessManagementFinanceHistory
Project-centered learning increasingly demands for communication tools to enhance learners' virtual interaction. In the context of the COOPER EU project a model-based approach has been conceived to support and facilitate the introduction... more
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      Voice over IPConceptual ModellingModel Based Approach
This is my graduate thesis book. My thesis develops systematic methods in interaction design using three case studies. I am focusing on two systematic models - the conceptual model and the mental model. A conceptual model is the model... more
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      Interaction DesignSystems ThinkingConceptual ModellingMental Models
The advent of socio-technical, cyber-physical and artificial intelligence systems has broadened the scope of requirements engineering, which must now deal with new classes of requirements, concerning ethics, privacy and trust. This brings... more
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      Information SystemsSoftware EngineeringApplied OntologyRequirements Engineering
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of foundational ontologies, i.e., formal ontological theories in the philosophical sense, to provide a theoretically sound foundation for improving the theory and... more
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      Information SystemsSoftware EngineeringInformation Systems (Business Informatics)Management Information Systems
Ontology design patterns have been pointed out as a promising ap- proach for ontology engineering. The goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, based on well-established works in Software Engineering, we revisit the notion of ontology... more
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      Computer ScienceSoftware EngineeringApplied OntologySemantic Web Technologies
Literaturauszug aus Frederic Vester: Neuland des Denkens. Vom technokratischen zum kybernetischen Zeitalter, Stuttgart 1980. Disclaimer: Der Literaturauszug wurde rein subjektiv anhand der Interessen des Verfassers (Manfred Bundschuh)... more
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      EpistemologyFuzzy set theoryConceptual ModellingModelling
Resumo: A modelação de um sistema hidrogeológico deve ter como ponto de partida a construção de um modelo conceptual, o qual consta de uma construção mental -expressa através de ideias, palavras e valores numéricos -resultante da... more
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      Conceptual ModellingComplex SystemConceptual ModelMathematical Model
War has always been one of the most serious problems of mankind. Although conventional wars are still with us, we have so far succeeded in avoiding an all out nuclear war. Nevertheless, civil wars and terrorism have now replaced classical... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesWar StudiesConceptual ModellingPolitical Violence
This paper provides an integrated approach to the analysis of the geological, hydrological and hydrogeological characteristics of the Cape Flats: a coastal plain sand formed within the mountains of the Cape Town metropolitan area. The... more
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      Conceptual ModellingWater resource managementGroundwater-Surface water interactionConceptualisation
—In competitive markets, companies need well-designed business strategies if they seek to grow and obtain sustainable competitive advantage. At the core of a successful business strategy there is a carefully crafted value proposition,... more
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      Information Systems (Business Informatics)EconomicsMicroeconomicsOntology
Building proper reference ontologies is a hard task. There are a number of methods and tools that traditionally have been used to support this task. These include the use of foundational theories, the reuse of domain and core ontologies,... more
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      Information SystemsInformation ScienceInformation Systems (Business Informatics)Management Information Systems
Every tool builds a conceptual box. This cognitive box means a situation within which the tool is useful. Outside of that context, that particular conceptual box, the tool ignores everything else. Thus, it is useless in its ability to... more
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      PragmatismCreativityPragmaticsCreative Problem Solving
RESUMO O reconhecimento de que a cidade deve ser tratada como problemática multidisciplinar vem sendo sistematicamente reafirmado na literatura. Este reconhecimento remete à importância da maneira como devemos abordar o planejamento deste... more
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      Transport PlanningConceptual ModellingLand-use planningLUTI
Vibram's FiveFingers shoes may provide clues to the bodily origins of double-scope conceptual blending, one of the pillars of contemporary cognitive linguistics.
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      SemioticsCognitive PsychologyHuman EvolutionFashion design
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      Cultural HeritageDesign MethodsCulture & Heritage InformaticsConceptual Modelling
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      Identity politicsConceptual changeConceptual ModellingConcepts
The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophical logics. It... more
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      Information ScienceOntologyApplied OntologyOntology (Computer Science)
As system complexity is on the rise, there is a growing need for standardized building blocks to increase the likelihood of systems’ success. Conceptual modeling is the primary activity required for engineering systems to be understood,... more
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      Computer ScienceSystems EngineeringConceptual ModellingApplied Sciences
As a subsequent step of the conceptual modelling and the information modelling involving the specification of the knowledge content of the decision processes and the involved data imbedded in the information entities, a derivation of the... more
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      EngineeringInformation ManagementTacit KnowledgeConceptual Modelling
Database and data model evolution cause significant problems in the highly dynamic business environment that we experience these days. To support the rapidly changing data requirements of agile companies, conceptual data models, which... more
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      Information SystemsMeasure TheoryConceptual ModellingEmpirical Software Engineering
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      Case StudiesConceptual ModellingResearch Methods for Business Students
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      Conceptual ModellingHydrologic ModelingHydrologic ModellingRainfall-Runoff modelling
This theoretical article aims to draw up an inventory of the latest advances in medical knowledge engineering in the specific area of ontologies and knowledge based systems design. Echoing the debates that animated the landscape of... more
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      Cognitive ScienceComputer ScienceTheory Of ComputationArtificial Intelligence
Lo scopo di questa relazione è quello di illustrare come sia possibile creare e far funzionare una piattaforma online basata sulla raccolta di tutti i feedback dei consumatori dell'intero comparto agroalimentare, potenzialmente l'intera... more
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      Digital HumanitiesStorytellingConceptual ModellingDigital Storytelling
As one of the main disciplines, science is very important for people to make sense of their life. The appropriate use of the models in science classrooms to promote children’s understanding, imagination and creativity definitely depends... more
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      Conceptual ModellingModeling and Simulation
En este trabajo se indagó en aspectos conceptuales y operativos vinculados a la elaboración de instrumentos de gestión patrimonial en Uruguay, poniendo énfasis en los bienes y espacios costeros que se destacan por su contribución al... more
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      Cultural HeritageEcosystem ServicesConceptual ModellingPatrimonio Cultural
The research focuses upon the development of a simulation conceptual modelling methodology for SCM applications (termed the 'SCM 2 '). The originality of the SCM 2 is that it combines a prescribed procedure for simulation conceptual... more
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      Conceptual ModellingMethodology DevelopmentSimulationSupply Chain Improvement
In conceptual models of Enterprise Architecture, a key component is the model of Business Architecture. The term is frequently used and the concept is well accepted, however in practice definitions of Business Architecture are... more
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      OntologySemantic Web TechnologiesEnterprise ArchitectureConceptual Modelling
In this paper, we present a Knowledge Based System for describing and storing dances that takes advantage of the expressivity of Description Logics. We propose exploiting the tools of the Semantic Web Technologies in representing and... more
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      Ontology (Computer Science)Conceptual ModellingLaban Movement AnalysisOWL
*) in the context of bachelor students.
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      Software EngineeringConceptual ModellingExperimental DesignRequirement Engineering
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      Database SystemsConceptual ModellingData ModelingDatabase Management Systems
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the current expression of construction industry innovation generating a wide range of augmented market deliverables, new requirements and emergent roles. For organizations to cross the innovation... more
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      Construction ManagementDiffusion of InnovationsPerformance ManagementBIM (Architecture)
Teori sistem umum sebagai disiplin ilmu dasar baru merupakan sebuah bidang logis-matematis yang memiliki pokok bahasan pada perumusan dan pengambilan kesimpulan prinsip-prinsip yang berlaku untuk sistem secara umum. Teori sistem umum... more
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      Conceptual ModellingEcologyGeneral Systems TheoryGeographic Information Systems (GIS)