The family of languages that builds the foundation of the MEMO method is intended to feature a high degree of inter-language integration. For this purpose, the languages need to share common concepts. In order to define concepts that are semantically equivalent, it is recommendable to use the...

Universitäten sehen sich einem wachsenden Druck ausgesetzt, Leistungen in Forschung und Lehre zu evaluieren. Die Ergebnisse solcher Evaluationen werden zunehmend Grundlage für die Vergabe von Mitteln sein, haben also eine steuernde Wirkung und sind damit für die weitere Entwicklung von...

There has been an ongoing debate about the use of research methods in Information Systems Research (ISR). Despite the international dominance of the behaviourist approach, there is a remarkable number of researchers who propagate alternative methods, such as hermeneutic approaches or the...

To facilitate designing and maintaining collections of business process models and corresponding implementation documents, it is of pivotal relevance to identify commonalities that a set of process types share. They allow for reusing parts of process models and are a prerequisite of efficient...

In recent years, the development of domain-specific modelling languages has gained remarkable attention. This is for good reasons: A domain-specific modelling language incorporates concepts that represent domain-level knowledge. Hence, systems analysts are not forced to reconstruct these...

Dieser Bericht stellt die Mentoring-Konzeption für den Studiengang M. Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen vor. Im Zentrum der Konzeption steht ein strukturierter Mentoringprozess, der durch ein begleitendes...

While it is widely agreed that current enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems cannot evolve much further, it is the question how future enterprise systems will look like. To approach an answer to this question, this report provides at first an analysis of essential high level requirements...