Getting Results With the Object-Oriented Enterprise Model

Getting Results With the Object-Oriented Enterprise Model, 1/e

Thornton Gale
Jim Eldred
SIGS Books

Published April, 1996 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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This book develops a formal methodology of enterprise modeling, a tool of business reengineering. This book synthesizes the current thinking in many diverse fields from general systems theory, conceptual modeling, information theory, computer science and business theory to develop a formal description of the enterprise and a rigorous methodology for modeling it. The object-oriented paradigm provides the ideal intellectual framework for enterprise modeling. The definition of an object as an encapsulation of state and behavior is exactly what one must worry about in enterprise modeling. The message passing mechanism of objects is exactly how the processing nodes such as people, organizations or machines interact with each other in the real world of the enterprise. The authors present a summary of their own object-oriented enterprise modeling methodology which is founded on these formalisms.