Information System Concepts

The discipline of information systems: let many flowers bloom! Theories of meaning and different perspectives on information systems. Multiple relationships: an analysis of their semantics and their modelling. About a framework for information and information processing of learning systems. A self-descriptive conceptual schema modelling facility, its implementation and extension. A user-centred method for the development of data-intensive dialogue systems: an object-oriented approach. A meta model transformation approach towards harmonisation in information system modelling. Limitations of information systems theory and practice: a case for pluralism. What's in a relationship? On distinguishing property holding and object binding. English grammar as a sentence model for conceptual modelling using NIAM. From information systems to knowledge systems. Anything, everything and things playing roles: three realizing principles as a contribution to a platform for understanding . Semiotic approach for object abstraction. Abstraction and concretizing in information systems and problem domains: implications for system descriptions. Business model representations. How should business professionals analyze information systems for themselves? How far harmonisation? Panel discussion set-up. Position papers on `How far harmonisation?' Index of contributors. Keyword index.