Ulrich Frank (born 1958) is a German Business informatician and Professor of Business informatics at the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen () is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded 194th place in the world. It was originally ...

, 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 The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

, Frank in 1988 received his doctorate from the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public university, public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Aca ...

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

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in 1993 at the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Prote ...

, and was appointed Professor of computer science at the University of Koblenz-Landau 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. * Hubert Österle, Jörg Becker, Ulrich Frank, Thomas Hess, Dimitris Karagiannis, Helmut Krcmar, Peter Loos, Peter Mertens, Andreas Oberweis, 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 Frank
homepage at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Multi-Perspective Enterprise Modelling
Homepage at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Ulrich Frank im Gespräch über Sprache, Abstraktion und konzeptuelle Modelle
in: ''Perspektiven , Wirtschaftsinformatik-Podcast,'' Folge 2, 18.05.2016. (in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Frank, Ulrich 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