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I am working on a tool to support conceptualization in developing
interorganizational information systems. In order to evaluate this tool,
and the ideas that ly behind it, I am conducting some experiments, in
which I want to determine whether the conceptual models of a group of
participants with regard to a particular part of the world - in my case
a part of the transport chain - converge or diverge after a session with
the tool. My question concerns the measurement-part of this. 

I have operationalized a conceptual model with the entitity-types,
attributes, relations and processes that people can mention to be of
importance (please comment on this choice, references, other
possibilities, etc.). These will be measures with a questionnaire before
and after traetment (different questions). My main question is what
measures can be used to establish the development of the hypothetical
"joint conceptual model". Was there convergence, divergence, no
development at all, etc. I am carefully thinking of some set-theoretical
indicators, but that is about all. From sociology I know some
graph-theoretical techniques exist to analyze relations, but I have a
fealing that this is not sensitive enough.

All in all, I would like to receive some comments, somke advice, or some
references. Thanks in advance.

Folkert

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Folkert W. Wierda                                winffww@dutrun.UUCP
Delft University of Technology                   winffww@hdetud1.BITNET
Department of Information Systems                tel. +31 15 785811
P.O. Box 356                                     fax  +31 15 787022
2600 AJ Delft
the Netherlands
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