文档介绍：Enterprise Ontology
Jan . Dietz
Enterprise Ontology
Theory and Methodology
With 99 Figures and 9 Tables
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Author
Jan . Dietz
Department of Software Technology
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics,
puter Science
Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD Delft, herlands
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To my CIAO! friends
Prologue
There is nothing more practical than a good theory
When you study the course of affairs in an arbitrary enterprise as a naïve
observer, you notice that the persons in the enterprise seem busy like ants
in executing a lot