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Human Relativism (HR) was presented a decade ago as a new
philosophical stance for thinking and modelling Information Systems. The
Normative Approach for Modelling Information Systems (NOMIS) adopted HR
by using a human-observable-action centred perspective of information systems.
By using HR, NOMIS claims to have reduced unpredictability, attributed to
human behaviour, and increased precision, required by formal methods. Still,
there are other approaches, some of them using formal methods, supported by
different ontologies, such as the well-known Bunge–Wand–Weber ontology, that
lack the necessary precision. In this paper, we explore different ontologies, their
relationship to language and why they fail to deliver precision. Precision, a
concept introduced in HR, as a basis for engineering, is analysed, and the way to
achieve it is proposed through suggesting guidelines for further discussion and
research.
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Ontology Human Relativism Enterprise Ontology BWW Ontology Semiotics Information Systems Information Systems Modelling Precision in Information Systems Modelling
Citation
Cordeiro J. (2021). Revisiting human relativism: guidelines for precision in information systems modelling. In B. Shishkov (ed), Business modeling and software design. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 422. Springer, Cham.
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Springer