The REA-DSL: A Domain Specific Modeling Language for Business Models

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Reference

Sonnenberg, C., Huemer, C., Hofreiter, B., Mayrhofer, D., & Braccini, A. M. (2011). The REA-DSL: A Domain Specific Modeling Language for Business Models. In H. Mouratidis & C. Rolland (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference (CAiSE 2011) (Vol. LNCS 6741, pp. 252-266). London, United Kingdom: Springer.

Publication type

Chapter in Edited Book

Abstract

In the discipline of accounting, the resource-event-agent (REA) ontology is a well accepted conceptual accounting framework to analyze the economic phenomena within and across enterprises. Accordingly, it seems to be appropriate to use REA in the requirements elicitation to develop an information architecture of accounting and enterprise information systems. However, REA has received comparatively less attention in the field of business informatics and computer science. Some of the reasons may be that the REA ontology despite of its well grounded core concepts is (1) sometimes vague in the definition of the relationships between these core concepts, (2) misses a precise language to describe the models, and (3) does not come with an easy to understand graphical notation. Accordingly, we have started developing a domain specific modeling language specifically dedicated to REA models and corresponding tool support to overcome these limitations. In this paper we present our REA DSL which supports the basic set of REA concepts.

Research

Wertorientiertes Prozessmanagement
internes Projekt, since January 2008

Das Denken in Prozessen hat sich bewährt, um Arbeitsabläufe über Abteilungsgrenzen hinweg zu gestalten. Konzepte wie Total Quality Management, Continuous Improvement und Total Reengineering sind ... more ...

Towards a Value-oriented Perspective on Business Process Management - On the Design of Methods to Evaluate the Economic Impact of Alternative Process Designs
PhD-Thesis, October 2008 until February 2013 (finished)

Aus sich der Wirtschaftsinformatik können Organisationen als Informationssysteme - Mensch-Aufgabe-Technik-Systeme - verstanden werden. Diesem Verständnis folgend sind technische und ... more ...

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Organizational Units

  • Institute of Information Systems
  • Hilti Chair of Business Process Management