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A FRAMEWORK OFINFORMATION SYSTEMCONCEPTS
The FRISCO Report (Web edition)
byEckhard D. FalkenbergWolfgang HessePaul LindgreenBjörn E. NilssonJ. L. Han OeiColette RollandRonald K. StamperFrans J. M. Van AsscheAlexander A. Verrijn-StuartKlaus Voss
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IFIP 1998
ISBN 3-901882-01-4
 
 
Full text of the FRISCO Report (MS-Word 6.0)
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FRISCO Report,
originally completed in December 1996, is now madeavailable as a downloable file for research and educational purposes. Not to bedistributed for profit, in any form, without written permission of the
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©
IFIP 1996, 1998ISBN 3-901882-01-4
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREAMBLE 11 INTRODUCTION 5
1.1 The Information System Area 51.2 Roots of the Problems in the Information System Area 71.3 Setting up a Framework of Information System Concepts: 101.4 The Structure of Our Conceptual Framework 121.5 The Structure of the FRISCO Report 13
2 A LINE OF REASONING ABOUT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 14
2.1 Searching for a Starting Point 142.3 Some Fundamental Questions to be Asked and Some Simple Answers 162.4 Towards a Raison d'être 24
3 INFORMATION SYSTEM CONCEPTS: An Integrated Overview 26
3.1 Our "Weltanschauung" 283.3 Actors, Actions and Actands 413.4 Constructing and Representing Conceptions 443.5 Communicating Conceptions: Restrictions Imposed by the Constructivist View 533.6 Models 553.7 Systems 603.8 Organisations, Information and Communication 643.9 Information Systems 723.10 Computerised Information Sub-systems 753.11 Summary of Assumptions and Definitions 83
4 INFORMATION SYSTEM CONCEPTS: A Formal Approach 92
4.1 The Fundamental Layer 944.2 The Layer of Actors, Actions, and Actands 1004.4 The Layer of System Concepts 1084.5 The Layer of Organisational and Information System Concepts 1104.6 Summary of Primitives, Axioms, Definitions and Functions 112
5 A SAMPLE APPLICATION OF OUR CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 121
5.1 Description of the Test Case 121
6 ELABORATION ON SELECTED TOPICS 137
6.1 Semiotic Concepts 1376.2 System Concepts 1466.3 Modelling Concepts 153
7 REFLECTIONS: Committed Positions on the Report 165
FRISCO – “Mission * Impossible” ? (Eckhard D. Falkenberg) 165
Is Information to Become the Phlogiston of the Late 20th Century? (Wolfgang Hesse) 171
On Collaborative Linking Support for the FRISCO Concept System (Pentti Kerola) 177
FRISCO - A Way to Insight? (Paul Lindgreen) 182
Reflections from a Practitioner on the Information Concept (Björn E. Nilsson) 187
A Dissenting Position (Ronald K. Stamper) 191
FRISCO Reflected Upon: So What or Aha? (Alexander A. Verrijn-Stuart) 197
REFERENCES 203GLOSSARY 210INDEX 218
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