Automating Business Modelling A Guide to Using Logic to Represen

Enterprise Modelling (EM) methods are frequently used by entrepreneurs as an analysis tool for describing and redesigning their businesses. The resulting product, an enterprise model, is commonly used as a blueprint for reconstructing organizations&n

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Automating Business Modelling A Guide to Using Logic to Represent Informal Methods and Support Reasoning With 104 Figures

Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, MS, MSc, PhD Dave Robertson, PhD School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK Series Editors Xindong Wu Lakhmi Jain

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To my husband, Albert Burger, and my parents, Ching-Liang Chen and Peng-Tzu Chiu. Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

Preface

This book describes different ways of providing automated support for enterprise modelling. It firstly introduces different Enterprise Modelling methods and their relevance to an organisation. This provides an insight to how Enterprise Modelling methods may benefit organisations