Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions

Asset Mapping - Developing Inter-Enterprise Solutions from Legacy Components.- Reasoning about Systems and their Properties.- An Abstract Architecture for Dependable and Flexible Distributed Applications.- CONVERSE: A Family-Oriented Software Development Process for Engine Controllers.- Application of an Agent Software Architecture for the SEBPC CARD Project.- Cheating Death: Better Software Evolution.- Initial Recommendations for Improving Maintenance Strategy.- Theory and Practice of Enhancing a Legacy Software System.- A Unified Mechanism for Information Systems Definition in Action.- Evaluating Information Technology: Lessons from Integrating Business Process Simulation with Computer Network Simulation.- Decision Technologies for New Bid Pricing Processes in Distribution Industries.- A Search-Based Automated Test-Data Generation Framework for Safety-Critical Systems.- An Evolutionary Systems Model.- More Legacy System Patterns.- The ERP Systems Development Approach to Achieving an Adaptive Enterprise: The Impact of Enterprise Process Modelling Tools.- Co-Evolution of Diverse Elements Interacting Within a Social Ecosystem.- Business and IT Perspectives on AMORE: a Methodology using Object-Orientation in Re-engineering Enterprises.- Co-ordination Adaptors: The Evolution of Component-Based Distributed Systems.- Global Perspectives on Legacy Systems.- Remembrance of Designs Past: Legacy Data, Organisational Memory and Distributed Design.- Intelligent Software Support of Business Process Change.- Modelling Collaboration in Loosely Coupled Inter-Organisational Relationships.- RICES: Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions.- Author Index.