REA Technology

REA Community

» Internet

Mailing list REA Technology is designated to those who would like to understand REA ontology better, how to apply REA in business software, how to create REA models in various application areas.

Web site by William E. McCarthy contains most of the seminal and continuing research papers associated with the development of the REA model.

REA wiki REA Version 2 provides a platorm for a new version of the REA-ontology (REAv2), which aims at supporting model-driven systems engineering, knowledge representation and systems interoperability.

» Electronic Commerce Standards

The following electronic commerce standards have included REA in their metamodels or modeling methods:

Open-edi (ISO/IEC 15944-4 2006), Information technology - Business Operational View, Part 4: Business transaction scenarios – Accounting and economic ontology

ebXML, Electronic Business eXtensible markup language

UN/CEFACT, United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation, and Electronic Business

» Books

The following books on REA have been published:
Modeling and Designing Accounting Systems: Using Access to Build a Database by C. Janie Chang and Laura R. Ingraham, Wiley 2007, contains practical example in Microsoft Access. A book for students of accounting.

Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns Pavel Hruby, Jesper Kiehn and Christian Vibe Scheller, Springer 2006. A book for software engineers.

Enterprise Information Systems: A Pattern-Based Approach
by Cheryl Dunn, J. Owen Cherrington and Anita Sawyer Hollander, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2004. A book for students of accounting.

Accounting, Information Technology, and Business Solutions
by Anita Sawyer Hollander, Eric Denna, J. Owen Cherrington, McGraw-Hill/Irwin 1999, describes the REAL concept (Resources, Events Agents and Locations). A book for students of accounting.