Towards the Reconstruction and Evaluation of Conceptual Model Quality Discourses - Methodical Framework and Application in the Context of Model Understandability
Towards the Reconstruction and Evaluation of Conceptual Model Quality Discourses - Methodical Framework and Application in the Context of Model Understandability
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走向概念模型质量话语的重构和评估——模型可理解性背景下的方法框架和应用
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2012
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P. Loos
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Peter Fettke;Constantin Houy;Armella;P. Loos
在信息系统(IS)学科中，概念模型在过去几年中获得了极大的重要性。系统的模型质量评估出现了不同的方法。然而，这些方法是基于对“模型质量”这一术语的不同理解、定义和实施。在本文中，我们避免先验地概念化和操作化模型质量。相反，假设模型质量的确定和适当的标准是在建模者和模型用户之间基于不同视角在话语中协商的，我们开发了一个方法论框架来对概念模型质量话语进行批判性重构和评估，以确定相关的模型质量标准和理解。在相关实验室实验的基础上，我们的方法被示范应用于重建质量标准模型可理解性的论述。这一应用表明，由于基本假设的不同，许多关于模型可理解性的研究结果很难具有可比性，最好是基于对潜在理解的系统重构来解释。
Within the information systems (IS) discipline conceptual models have gained tremendous importance in the past years. Different approaches for systematic model quality evaluation have emerged. However, these approaches are based on different understandings, definitions as well as operationalizations of the term “model quality”. In this article we refrain from conceptualizing and operationalizing model quality a priori. In contrast, assuming that the determination of model quality and appropriate criteria are negotiated in a discourse between modelers and model users based on their different perspectives, we develop a methodical framework for the critical reconstruction and evaluation of conceptual model quality discourses in order to identify relevant model quality criteria and understandings. Our method is exemplarily applied for the reconstruction of the discourse on the quality criterion model understandability based on relevant laboratory experiments. This application shows that many research results on model understandability are hardly comparable due to their different basic assumptions and should preferably be interpreted based on a methodical reconstruction of underlying understandings.