Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Third International Conference CAiSE '91, Trondheim, Norway, May 13-15, 1991

ISBN-13: 9783540540595 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 578 str.

Rudolf Andersen;Janis A. Jr. Bubenko;Arne Soelvberg

Opis

CAiSE '91 is the third in a series of conferences on advanced information systems engineering. The call for papers was given a wide international distribution, the programme committee included reputed researchers and key professionals, and 29 papers were selected for this volume.

Spis treści

The information industry scenario in year 2000, trends and change of focus, for the it professional and for the end-user.- Representation and utilization of non-functional requirements for information system design.- Alecsi : An expert system for requirements engineering.- Reusing requirements through a modeling and composition support tool.- The KIWIS knowledge base management system.- A functional method of data processing based on relational algebra.- Dealing with granularity of time in temporal databases.- Information as a strategic resource: A question of communication.- MetaEdit— A flexible graphical environment for methodology modelling.- PPP an integrated CASE environment.- Spade — Towards case tools that can guide design.- DBE: An expert tool for database design.- EcinsDesign: A graphical editor for semantic structures.- A case study using the IMSE experimentation tool.- A rule language to capture and model business policy specifications.- Information systems development using a combination of process and rule based approaches.- Towards automating software maintenance.- Software process planning and execution: Coupling vs. integration.- Cooperating transactions and workspaces in EPOS: Design and preliminary implementation.- Implementation and critique of an algorithm which maps a relational database to a conceptual model.- Attribute abstraction.- The essential system model.- Federated case environment.- An organizational information systems enhancement advice unit (oiseau).- Structuring modelling knowledge for CASE shells.- An object-oriented approach to model management.- Representing a system specification with a temporal dimension in an object-oriented language.- The OO-binary relationship model : A truly object oriented conceptual model.- Organisation's IT needs in the next decade — The swedish vision.