Knowledge reuse and agile processes catalysts for innovation /

• Main Author: Mitra, Amit, 1949-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Gupta, Amar.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Knowledge management.; Management information systems.; Business logistics > Data processing > Management.; Computer network architectures.; Information theory.; Activity cost; Added value; Architect of knowledge; Atomic rules; Automating adaptability; Borel objects; Business process automation layers; Cardinality; Component reuse; computer systems creation; Cycle time; Functional decomposition; Idempotence; Implementation technology; Inchoate information; Information input-output processes; Information logistics layer; Information systems; Interface rules layer; Knowledge change and adaptation; Knowledge patterns; Knowledge reuse; Meta world of information; Node-branch method; Normalization of information components; Object interaction; Object paradigm; Ontology of information space; Order and degree of relationships; Perspectives of mutability; Process maps; Process ownership; Proximity metric; Referential integrity; Risk management; Semantics of knowledge; Structured business processes; Temporal relationships; Transitivity, atransitivity, and intransitivity; Universal perspective; Unstructured business processes
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This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It presents research on agile, adaptive processes and inf...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to This Book
• Introduction to Structure of Knowledge
• The Architecture of Knowledge
• The Pattern at the Root of it All
• Relationships
• Object aggregation
• Processes, evetns, and temporal relationships
• Crossing the chasm
• The nature of constraints
• The whole shebang. : the integrated Metamodel of Knowledge.