Creating Agile Business Systems with Reusable Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Mitra, Amit;Gupta, Amar

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 405
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The authors describe how business knowledge can be identified, encapsulated and shared using a modular approach to building business systems that parallels that of object oriented software. Templates required for accelerating integration, analysis and design are provided. Suitable for consultants, analysts, managers, researchers and graduate students, in IT and business.;Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Boxes; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 What is this book about and who should read it?; 2 What will the information be used for?; 3 Technology's broken promise; 4 Component reuse -- the genesis; 5 Scope of this book; 6 Foundation of knowledge reuse: three pillars; 7 How this book is organized; 1 On the nature of reality and the nature of business; Introduction to the MetaWorld; 1 The nature of knowledge; 2 Modeling the real world; 3 Metaworld of information; 4 Basic metaobject inventory.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Boxes
Figures
Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 What is this book about and who should read it?
2 What will the information be used for?
3 Technology's broken promise
4 Component reuse --
the genesis
5 Scope of this book
6 Foundation of knowledge reuse: three pillars
7 How this book is organized
1 On the nature of reality and the nature of business
Introduction to the MetaWorld
1 The nature of knowledge
2 Modeling the real world
3 Metaworld of information
4 Basic metaobject inventory. 5 Metaobjects and the natural repository of knowledge6 The architecture of knowledge and the scope of the metamodel in this book
2 The object at the root of it all
1 Object class versus object instance
2 The state of an object
3 Inheriting behavior --
subtypes, supertypes, and partitioning of objects
4 The problem of perspective
5 Repositories of meaning
3 The nature of attributes
1 The structure of attributes and states
2 Attribute.

✦ Subjects

Management information systems;Electronic books