Conceptual modeling promises to support various analysis questions on organizational structures, such as allocation of tasks, responsibilities, and authority in an organization. In this paper, we first synthesize requirements on an organizational structure analysis from the business scholar literature and assess to what extent and how current modeling languages fulfill these. In particular, we find limitations in the covered scope as well as the information processing capabilities of the reviewed approaches. Second, as a response to identified gaps, we propose multi-level modeling and integrated modeling and programming as a way to support design and analysis of organizational structure. We use the structure of universities as a case scenario. This paper is an extension of our earlier work. Firstly, we add an explicit set of requirements derived from business scholar literature. Secondly, we draw a comparison to the abstraction mechanisms used in conventional meta-modeling, as prominently exemplified by UML class diagrams, and we critically discuss multi-level modeling. Finally, we discuss a prototypical implementation of our multi-level model in the XModeler software tool.

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关于基于模型的组织结构分析：对当前建模方法的评估以及多级建模在支持组织结构设计和分析中的应用

概念建模有望支持有关组织结构的各种分析问题，例如组织中任务，职责和权限的分配。在本文中，我们首先根据商业学者的文献对组织结构分析进行综合，并评估当前的建模语言在何种程度上以及如何满足这些要求。特别是，我们发现所涵盖方法的局限性以及所审查方法的信息处理能力。其次，作为对已发现差距的回应，我们提出了多级建模以及集成的建模和编程方法，以支持对组织结构进行设计和分析。我们以大学的结构为例。本文是我们早期工作的扩展。首先，我们添加了一组从商业学者文献中得出的明确要求。其次，我们对常规元模型中使用的抽象机制进行了比较，UML类图突出地说明了这种抽象机制，并严格讨论了多级建模。最后，我们在XModeler软件工具中讨论了多层次模型的原型实现。