Inductive reference model development: recent results and current challenges
Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Philip Hake, Peter Fettke, Peter Loos · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2016
Reference modeling offers attractive bene®ts for both research and practice.The inductive strategy for reference model development derivesreference models by generalizing individual enterprise models.It has recently gained attention in research, however, its practical application still faces numerous challenges.The objective of the article at hand is to identify recent contributions to the ®eld of inductive reference model development and use them to analyze the current challenges that impede the application of their results in practice.We identify at otal of 18 contributions, either scienti®c articles describing inductive methods for reference model development, or practical reports describing the concrete development of areference model for acertain domain.Theyare all analyzed by means of asix-stage-framework for reference model development.Foreach stage, we derive speci®c challenges and point out acknowledgments and potential solutions.