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Essential Challenges in Business Systems Modeling

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This paper argues for the need to respect so-called ‘Principle of Modeling’ and its consequences in the information system development methodologies. Principle of Modeling expresses the presumption that the objective basis for the implementation of the information system in the organization must be constituted by real facts existing outside of and independently of the organization. In other words, information system as an information infrastructure of some business system is always a model of the Real World. The Philosophical Framework for Business System Modeling is used as a platform for the discussion about basic aspects of the Real World and their relationships which should be covered by the information system in terms of the Principle of Modeling. Then some important consequences following from the framework in mutually connected fields of Business Processes Modeling, Conceptual Modeling, and Information System Development are discussed.

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The paper was processed with contribution of long term institutional support of research activities by Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague.

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  1. Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

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    Jacek Maślankowski

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Řepa, V. (2017). Essential Challenges in Business Systems Modeling. In: Wrycza, S., Maślankowski, J. (eds) Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education. SIGSAND/PLAIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 300. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66996-0_7

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