Enterprise Information Systems II

✍ Scribed by Albert M. K. Cheng (auth.), Bernadette Sharp BSc, MPhil, PhD, FBCS, IEEE, MI Inf Sc., Joaquim Filipe MSc, MBA, PhD, José Cordeiro MSc (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book comprises the refereed papers together with the invited keynote papers, presented at the Second International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. The conference was organised by the School of Computing at Staffordshire University, UK, and the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of Setubal, Portugal, in cooperation with the British Computer Society and the International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group 8.1. The purpose of this 2nd International Conference was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances in and business applications of information systems. The papers demonstrate the vitality and vibrancy of the field of Enterprise Information Systems. The research papers included here were selected from among 143 submissions from 32 countries in the following four areas: Enterprise Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Decision Support Systems, Systems Analysis and Specification, and Internet and Electronic Commerce. Every paper had at least two reVIewers drawn from 10 countries. The papers included in this book were recommended by the reviewers. On behalf of the conference organising committee we would like to thank all the members of the Programme Committee for their work in reviewing and selecting the papers that appear in this volume. We would also like to thank all the authors who have submitted their papers to this conference, and would like to apologise to the authors that we were unable to include and wish them success next year.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
E-Commerce and Its Real-Time Requirements: Modeling E-Commerce as a Real-Time System....Pages 1-6
Developing Agent-Oriented Information Systems for the Enterprise....Pages 7-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Simplifying Database Design and Integrating It into Dynamic Web Site Construction....Pages 23-29
Process Enabled Information Systems....Pages 30-35
Information Security: A Logic-Based Approach....Pages 36-41
Object-Oriented Decision Support System....Pages 42-48
Measures to Get Better Quality Databases....Pages 49-55
A GemStone GIS....Pages 56-60
Creating Realistic Data for Performance Evaluation....Pages 61-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Experiments in Optimising the Task of Anaphora Resolution....Pages 69-73
Self Organising Maps for Value Estimation to Solve Reinforcement Learning Tasks....Pages 74-83
An Information Theoretic Self-Organising Map with Disaggregation of output Classes....Pages 84-93
Syntax-Directed Translation Schemes for Multi-Agent Systems Conversation Modelling....Pages 94-100
Development of an Information System for Wind Power Stations....Pages 101-107
An Architecture for on-Line Intelligent Control of Blast Furnaces....Pages 108-112
A User-Friendly Development Tool for Medical Diagnosis Based on Bayesian Networks....Pages 113-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Statecharts for Business Process Modeling....Pages 121-125
Addressing Multiple Software Processes in Business....Pages 126-130
Placing the User in Systems Engineering....Pages 131-137
Representation Process and Abductive Reasoning....Pages 138-142
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
IDEF Diagrams and Petri Nets for Business Process Modeling: Suitability, Efficacy, and Complementary Use....Pages 143-148
Integrating Product Data with Workflow Data in Enterprise Models....Pages 149-155
Evaluating it Usage in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises....Pages 156-165
A Holistic Information Systems Strategy for Organisational Management — Hissom ....Pages 166-172
Rhodes, a Process Component Centered Software Engineering Environment....Pages 173-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
An E-Commerce Model for Extending ERP Systems onto the Internet: An Australian Perspective....Pages 185-189
Mediation, Agreement and Gratitude in Strategic Planning for Virtual Organisations....Pages 190-196
XML-Based Frameworks for Internet Commerce....Pages 197-202
Agents for Electronic Commerce....Pages 203-207
Towards a Secure and Complete Protocol for Electronic Commerce....Pages 208-214
Integrating Meeting Results in Organizations....Pages 215-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-221

✦ Subjects

Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Business Information Systems; Social Sciences, general