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Enterprise Information Systems 9th International Conference, ICEIS 2007, Funchal, Madeira, June 12-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

:	Joaquim Filipe, Jose Cordeiro, Jorge Cardoso (Eds.)
:	Enterprise Information Systems 9th International Conference, ICEIS 2007, Funchal, Madeira, June 12-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783540887102
:	1
:	CHF 47.80
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:	Sonstiges
:	English

:	388
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This books contains the best papers of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2007, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in June 2007. The 6 invited papers are presented together with 23 papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 full papers accepted for presentation at the conference itself (out of 644 submissions). The topics covered are: databases and information systems integration, artificial intelligence and decision support systems, information systems analysis and specification, software agents and internet computing, and human-computer interaction.

	Title Page	2
	Preface	5
	Organization	7
	Table of Contents	13
	Invited Papers	13
	Inter-enterprise System and Application Integration: A Reality Check	17
	We Are Creating Our Own Problems, e.g., Current Standardization Efforts Are Only Increasing Complexity!	17
	Find Out What Is Really Going on Before (re)Designing a System!	18
	Do Not Specify More Than Strictly Needed!	18
	Let’s Make Fuzziness Explicit!	18
	The World Moved on	19
	SaaS (Software as a Service)	19
	Web 2.0	20
	The World Really Moved on	21
	Meaning of ‘Integration’	21
	New World Order for Interactions Across Enterprise Information Systems in the Flat World	21
	It Is an Illusion to Believe We Will Ever Solve All Interoperability Problems!	23
	Understand the Driving Forces Before Integrating Systems!	24
	Think in Long-Living Infrastructures!	24
	This Was Just the Beginning!	25
	Devise Conceptual “Nodes” Instead of “Leaves” Solutions!	25
	Current EAI, WFM, and ERP Systems Are “Leaves”!	25
	Is There Any Bright Future for EAI Solutions?	26
	EAI Solutions Will Eventually Adopt and Use Semantics	27
	Enterprise Application and Human Integration	27
	References	28
	The 4 x 4 Semantic Model: Exploiting Data, Functional, Non-functional and Execution Semantics Across Business Process,Workflow, Partner Services and Middleware Services Tiers	30
	Introduction	30
	Motivating Scenario	31
	The \emph{4 $\times$ 4} Model	32
	A Four-Tiered Approach to Business ProcessModeling	32
	Four Types of Semantics	33
	The \emph{4 $\times$ 4} Model	34
	Realizing the \emph{4 $\times$ 4} Model Using Semantic Templates	35
	Capturing the Semantics at Different Tiers Using Semantic Templates	36
	The \emph{4 $\times$ 4} Model in Action during Modeling, Enactment and Execution	37
	Conclusions	39
	References	40
	Challenges in Business Process Analysis	41
	Introduction: The Role of Models	41
	Analysis at Design-Time	44
	Different Types of Analysis	44
	Verification Techniques Have Become Mature!	44
	Analysis at Run-Time	45
	Process Discovery	46
	Conformance Checking	47
	Extension	47
	ProcessMining and Simulation	48
	Recommendation	48
	The World Is Not a Petri Net!	49
	Quality of Models	50
	Towards Comprehensive Tool Support	52
	Conclusions	53
	References	54
	Information Logistics in Networked Organizations: Selected Concepts and Applications	57
	Introduction	57
	Information Supply Challenges in Networked Organizations	58
	Examples for Information Flow Problems	58
	Categorizing Information Flow Problems	60
	Information Logistics	60
	How to Capture Information Demand?	62
	How to Identify the Right Content for a Demand?	63
	Information Logistics Applications	64
	Summary	66
	References	66
	Service-Oriented Architecture: One Size Fits Nobody	69
	Introduction	69
	SOA Use Cases	69
	SOA Requirements	71
	SOA Revisited: Horizontal and Vertical Abstractions	71
	Naïve SOA	72
	Advanced SOA	72
	Horizontal and Vertical SOA Abstractions	73
	Horizontal SOA Layering	73
	Vertical SOA Interfaces	75
	Summary	76
	Conclusions	76
	References	76
	Introducing an IT Capability Maturity Framework	77
	Why a New Framework?	77
	Theoretical Background	78
	Theory for Continuous Improvement of IT Enabled Value in a Firm	79
	Introducing an IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT CMF)	81
	Describing the Capability Maturity Framework	83
	Five Maturity Levels	83
	Four Macro Processes	83
	Research Results	88
	Summary	91
	References	91
	Part I: Databases and Information Systems Integration	13
	Incremental Transformation of Business Software	94
	Introduction	94
	Background	96
	Component-Based Software Design	96
	Business Software Transformation	97
	Transformation Requirements	98
	Transformation Process	99
	SoftwareModes	99
	Transformation Decisions	101
	Resulting Software Systems	102
	Transformation Toolset	104
	Status of the Implementation	105
	Conclusions	105
	References	106
	ERP Implementation Costs: A Preliminary Investigation	108
	Introduction	108
	Approach	109
	Literature Survey	109
	Cost Drivers for ERP Implementation	109
	SCE: Development Costs of Made to Measure Software and Implementation Costs of Standard Software	111
	Empirical Results	113