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Epistemological Perspectives on IS-Development – A Consensus-Oriented Approach on Conceptual Modeling

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Professional Knowledge Management (WM 2005)

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Abstract

Within the information systems (IS) research discipline, conceptual modeling is widely discussed as a fundamental task for IS-development as it leads to shared domain knowledge between IS developers and business person-nel. As well as IS-research modeling takes place within a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural context. Thereby, the (mostly implicit) assumptions made by dif-ferent researchers may vary fundamentally. As a result, it is important to ex-pose epistemological assumptions which underlie the work of different par-ticipants. Thus, we provide a framework which questions help to analyze and systematize the epistemological assumptions underlying IS research. We dem-onstrate the application of the framework on a special concept (the consensus-orientated approach) of conceptual modeling.

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    Björn Niehaves, Karsten Klose, Ralf Knackstedt & Jörg Becker

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, 31141, Hildesheim, Germany

    Klaus-Dieter Althoff

  2. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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  3. Department of Business Information Systems II, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

    Ralph Bergmann

  4. Department for Experience Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern

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  5. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Niehaves, B., Klose, K., Knackstedt, R., Becker, J. (2005). Epistemological Perspectives on IS-Development – A Consensus-Oriented Approach on Conceptual Modeling. In: Althoff, KD., Dengel, A., Bergmann, R., Nick, M., Roth-Berghofer, T. (eds) Professional Knowledge Management. WM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590019_71

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