Modelling information manufacturing systems
This work addresses limitations in modelling information manufacturing systems for organizations, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing approaches.
The paper tackles the lack of systematic representation of dynamic changes and organizational aspects in modelling information manufacturing systems, presenting the IASDO model and a framework for evaluating meta-models to compare it with current approaches.
The manufacture of an information product (IP) is akin to the manufacture of a physical product. Current approaches to model such information manufacturing systems (IMS), lack the ability to systematically represent the dynamic changes involved in manufacturing (or creating) an IP. They also have limitations to consistently include aspects of process and information management at an organizational level. This paper aims to address these limitations and presents a modelling approach, the IASDO model. Our work also represents a framework to evaluate the quality of the meta-models for IMS modelling which enable us to compare the IASDO model with current approaches.