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Publisher Summary Models exist in a world dominated by data, information, and knowledge. For businesses, this is a world of business information (BI) and knowledge management (KM). It is quite true that the results of modeling and mining do indeed reside in these specialties. It is also true that BI and KM researchers identify far more components than data, information, and knowledge in systemic descriptions of their areas—they also include important attributes such as understanding, intent, and insight. However, for looking at models, it is enough to consider only three concepts including data, information, and knowledge. It is these concepts that need to be clearly explicated in terms of what they mean to the model—and the modeler. All models are based on data and all data originates in the world. In constructing models that are created from such externally stored data, it is important to consider the process that converts data into information and information into knowledge, because this is, in part, the process that the modeler has to carry out as a technique—one of the most fundamental processes of modeling. As it is so fundamental, it is important to record every single moment at each stage. |