Optimal information modeling techniques

Despite the rapid advance of technology in the last few decades, accurate, on-time and on-budget completion of information systems development projects is still a vision rather than a reality. Despite the rapid advance of technology in the last few decades, accurate, on-time and on-budget completion...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Slooten, Kees van, 1943-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Evaluating an ISD Methodology for Software Packages
  • 2. Modelling Molecular Biological Information: Ontologies and Ontological Design Patterns
  • 3. Concept Acquisition Modeling for E-commerce Ontology
  • 4. An Object-Oriented Approach to Conceptual Hypermedia Modeling
  • 5. Conceptual Modeling of Large Web Sites
  • 6. A Method to Ease Schema Evolution
  • 7. A Three Layered Approach for General Image Retrieval
  • 8. Is There A Life After Objects?
  • 9. A Systemic Approach to Define Agents
  • 10. Modeling of Coordinated Planning and Allocation of Resources
  • 11. Tacit Knowledge Acquisition and Processing Within the Computing Domain: An Exploratory Study
  • 12. Modelling Business Rules Using Defeasible Logic
  • 13. EE-Cat: Extended Electronic Catalog for Dynamic and Flexible Electronic Commerce
  • 14. Enforcing Modeling Guidelines in an ORDBMS-based UML-Repository
  • 15. Simulation for Business Engineering of Electronic Markets
  • 16. Representing and Reasoning with Scenarios within Information Systems Modeling
  • 17. From Object-Oriented Modeling to Agent-Oriented Modeling: An Electronic Commerce Application
  • 18. Web-Based Cooperative Information Systems Modeling
  • 19. EMC - A Modeling Method for Developing Web-based Applications
  • 20. A UML Representation of U.S. Mutual Fund Servicing as an Iconic Model for Servicing the New EU Equivalent - UCITS
  • 21. Relationships Between Relationships: An Empirical Study
  • 22. Informationbase - A New Information System Layer
  • 23. A Comparison of Stochastic Models for the Interarrival Times of Packets in a Computer Network
  • 24. A Methodology for Adaptive Workflows
  • About the Editor
  • Index.