Ulrich Frank (born 1958) is a German
Business informatician and Professor of
Business informatics at the
University of Duisburg-Essen
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, known for his work on the state of the art in information systems research and the development of the Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO) meta modelling framework.
Life and work
After studying business administration at the
University of Cologne
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, Frank in 1988 received his doctorate from the
University of Mannheim
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with a dissertation, entitled "Expertensysteme – Neue Automatisierungspotentiale im Büro- und Verwaltungsbereich" (''Expert systems - New Potentials for automation in office and administration area'').
Frank wrote his
habilitation
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in 1993 at the
University of Marburg
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, and was appointed Professor of computer science at the
University of Koblenz-Landau
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in 1994. In 2004 Frank moved to the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he was appointed Professor of computer science and business enterprise modeling.
The focus of Frank's work is on multi-perspective enterprise modeling. He has developed and researched the (meta-) method
Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modeling (MEMO), which propagates a scientific approach of enterprise modeling and adds value in the discourse of integrative modeling, across the functional areas of business functions.
Selected publications
Frank published several books and articles.
Books:
* Ulrich Frank. ''Expertensysteme: Neue Automatisierungspotentiale im Büro- und Verwaltungsbereich?,'' Gabler, 1988.
* Ulrich Frank and J. Kronen. ''Kommunikationsanalyseverfahren als Grundlage der Gestaltung von Informationssystemen: Konzeptioneller Bezugsrahmen, Anwendungspraxis und Perspektiven,'' Vieweg, 1991.
* Ulrich Frank. ''Multiperspektivische Unternehmensmodellierung: Theoretischer Hintergrund und Entwurf einer objektorientierten Entwicklungsumgebung,'' Oldenbourg Verlag, 1994.
Articles, a selection:
* Frank, Ulrich. "Multi-perspective enterprise modeling: foundational concepts, prospects and future research challenges." Software & Systems Modeling, July 2014, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp 941-962.
* Frank, Ulrich. "Conceptual modelling as the core of the information systems discipline-perspectives and epistemological challenges." ''AMCIS 1999 Proceedings'' (1999): 240.
* Frank, Ulrich.
Multi-perspective enterprise modeling (memo) conceptual framework and modeling languages" System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on. IEEE, 2002.
* Frank, Ulrich. "Evaluation of reference models." Reference modeling for business systems analysis (2007): 118-140.
* Frank, Ulrich.'
Towards a pluralistic conception of research methods in information systems research'' No. 7. ICB-research report, 2006.
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Hubert Österle,
Jörg Becker, Ulrich Frank,
Thomas Hess,
Dimitris Karagiannis
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,
Helmut Krcmar
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,
Peter Loos
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,
Peter Mertens,
Andreas Oberweis
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, and
Elmar J. Sinz (2011).
Memorandum on design-oriented information systems research" ''European Journal of Information Systems,'' 20(1), 7-10.
References
External links
Ulrich Frankhomepage at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Multi-Perspective Enterprise ModellingHomepage at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Ulrich Frank im Gespräch über Sprache, Abstraktion und konzeptuelle Modellein: ''Perspektiven , Wirtschaftsinformatik-Podcast,'' Folge 2, 18.05.2016. (in German)
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1958 births
Living people
German computer scientists
Enterprise modelling experts
Information systems researchers
Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen
University of Cologne alumni
University of Mannheim alumni