Advanced Information Systems Engineering

MetaEdit+ A fully configurable multi-user and multi-tool CASE and CAME environment.- MENTOR: A Computer Aided Requirements Engineering environment.- A logic-based framework for reasoning support in software evolution.- TALE - A Temporal Active Language and Execution model.- DEGAS: Capturing dynamics in objects.- From rules to rule patterns.- Tool-based re-engineering of a legacy MIS: An experience report.- Developing an Information System using Troll - an application field study.- Active relationships for controlling the propagation of information and activities in databases.- Multi-data models translations in interoperable information systems.- Interoperable transactions in business models - A structured approach.- On information modeling to support interoperable spatial databases.- Guidelines for formalizing Fusion object-oriented analysis models.- Techniques for process analysis and unification.- Handling conceptual model validation by planning.- Database design recovery.- Theworld-wide web as a platform for supporting interactive Concurrent Engineering.- Context-driven information base update.- Managing overlapping transactional workflows.- Shared data management mechanism for distributed software development based on a reflective object-oriented model.- Agent-based tool integration for distributed information systems.- When parents need not have children - Cognitive biases in information modeling.- The role of benchmarking in information system development.- User-enhanceability for organisational information systems through visual programming.- An integration method for design schemas.- Advanced primitives for changing schemas of object databases.- Views for information system design without reorganization.- Semantics, features, and applications of the viewpoint abstraction.- Relaxing the instantiation link: Towards a content-based data model for information retrieval.- Deriving normalized is_a hierarchies by using applicability constraints.