Quality is one of the main topics in current conceptual modelling research, as is the field of business process modelling. Yet, widely acknowledged academic contributions towards an understanding or measurement of business process model quality are limited at best. In this paper I argue that the...

The aim of this note is to clarify and to correct some arguments which are used in the debate about the comparison of discrete social simulation with other methodologies used in the study of social phenomena, notably those of game theory. Though part of what will be said also applies to...

Kategoriale (nominale) Zeitreihen treten in den verschiedensten Bereichen der Praxis auf, wie der Informatik, der Biologie, der Sprachwissenschaft, u.Ä. Trotz ihrer praktischen Relevanz gibt es keine Monographien, welche die verschiedenen Aspekte bei der Analyse kategorialer Zeitreihen...

In theories that idealize the object of study, falsity is inserted somehow. However, the actual propositions by which the idealization takes place need not be false at all. An example from physics illustrates that the Ideal Gas Law and Boyle's Law are respective idealizations of the van der...