What is a Process Model? Reflections on the epistemology of design process models
What is a Process Model?
Reflections on the epistemology of design process models
Design Group, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
In
P. Heisig, P.J. Clarkson & S. Vajna (eds.)
Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes
Springer, New York, 2010, pp. 3-14.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION. This paper describes some of the challenges that companies face in getting benefit out of process models and argues that some of them arise from the nature of models, as analysed by philosophers, and the nature of process models in particular.
KEYWORDS. Design processes, process modelling, epistemology, philosophy of science
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