Ebook: Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions: Collected Papers from the EPSRC Research Programme

Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes. The papers contained in this volume report the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001. An earlier volume, published in 2000, reported interim results.
Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and Business Schools, this book explores the problems experienced by IT-dependent businesses that have to implement changing business processes in the context of their investment in legacy systems. The book presents some of the solutions investigated through the collaborations set up within the research programme.
Whether you are a researcher interested in the ideas that were generated by the research programme, or a user trying to understand the nature of the problems and their solutions, you cannot fail to be inspired by the writings contained in this volume.

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Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes. The papers contained in this volume report the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001. An earlier volume, published in 2000, reported interim results.
Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and Business Schools, this book explores the problems experienced by IT-dependent businesses that have to implement changing business processes in the context of their investment in legacy systems. The book presents some of the solutions investigated through the collaborations set up within the research programme.
Whether you are a researcher interested in the ideas that were generated by the research programme, or a user trying to understand the nature of the problems and their solutions, you cannot fail to be inspired by the writings contained in this volume.

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Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes. The papers contained in this volume report the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001. An earlier volume, published in 2000, reported interim results.
Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and Business Schools, this book explores the problems experienced by IT-dependent businesses that have to implement changing business processes in the context of their investment in legacy systems. The book presents some of the solutions investigated through the collaborations set up within the research programme.
Whether you are a researcher interested in the ideas that were generated by the research programme, or a user trying to understand the nature of the problems and their solutions, you cannot fail to be inspired by the writings contained in this volume.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Asset Mapping — Developing Inter-Enterprise Solutions from Legacy Components....Pages 1-12
Reasoning about Systems and their Properties....Pages 13-22
An Abstract Architecture for Dependable and Flexible Distributed Applications....Pages 23-37
Converse: A Family-Oriented Software Development Process for Engine Controllers....Pages 38-73
Application of an Agent Software Architecture for the SEBPC CARD Project....Pages 74-80
Cheating Death: Better Software Evolution....Pages 81-93
Initial Recommendations for Improving Maintenance Strategy....Pages 94-119
Theory and Practice of Enhancing a Legacy Software System....Pages 120-137
A Unified Mechanism for Information Systems Definition in Action....Pages 138-149
Evaluating Information Technology: Lessons from Integrating Business Process Simulation with Computer Network Simulation....Pages 150-159
Decision Technologies for New Bid Pricing Processes in Distribution Industries....Pages 160-173
A Search-Based Automated Test-Data Generation Framework for Safety-Critical Systems....Pages 174-213
An Evolutionary Systems Model....Pages 214-224
More Legacy System Patterns....Pages 225-240
The ERP Systems Development Approach to Achieving an Adaptive Enterprise: The Impact of Enterprise Process Modelling Tools....Pages 241-252
Co-Evolution of Diverse Elements Interacting Within a Social Ecosystem....Pages 253-273
Business and IT Perspectives on AMORE: a Methodology using Object-Orientation in Re-engineering Enterprises....Pages 274-297
Co-ordination Adaptors: The Evolution of Component-Based Distributed Systems....Pages 298-308
Global Perspectives on Legacy Systems....Pages 309-316
Remembrance of Designs Past: Legacy Data, Organisational Memory and Distributed Design....Pages 317-330
Intelligent Software Support for Business Process Change....Pages 331-346
Modelling Collaboration in Loosely Coupled Inter-Organisational Relationships....Pages 347-366
RICES: Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions....Pages 367-371
Back Matter....Pages 372-383

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Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes. The papers contained in this volume report the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001. An earlier volume, published in 2000, reported interim results.
Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and Business Schools, this book explores the problems experienced by IT-dependent businesses that have to implement changing business processes in the context of their investment in legacy systems. The book presents some of the solutions investigated through the collaborations set up within the research programme.
Whether you are a researcher interested in the ideas that were generated by the research programme, or a user trying to understand the nature of the problems and their solutions, you cannot fail to be inspired by the writings contained in this volume.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Asset Mapping — Developing Inter-Enterprise Solutions from Legacy Components....Pages 1-12
Reasoning about Systems and their Properties....Pages 13-22
An Abstract Architecture for Dependable and Flexible Distributed Applications....Pages 23-37
Converse: A Family-Oriented Software Development Process for Engine Controllers....Pages 38-73
Application of an Agent Software Architecture for the SEBPC CARD Project....Pages 74-80
Cheating Death: Better Software Evolution....Pages 81-93
Initial Recommendations for Improving Maintenance Strategy....Pages 94-119
Theory and Practice of Enhancing a Legacy Software System....Pages 120-137
A Unified Mechanism for Information Systems Definition in Action....Pages 138-149
Evaluating Information Technology: Lessons from Integrating Business Process Simulation with Computer Network Simulation....Pages 150-159
Decision Technologies for New Bid Pricing Processes in Distribution Industries....Pages 160-173
A Search-Based Automated Test-Data Generation Framework for Safety-Critical Systems....Pages 174-213
An Evolutionary Systems Model....Pages 214-224
More Legacy System Patterns....Pages 225-240
The ERP Systems Development Approach to Achieving an Adaptive Enterprise: The Impact of Enterprise Process Modelling Tools....Pages 241-252
Co-Evolution of Diverse Elements Interacting Within a Social Ecosystem....Pages 253-273
Business and IT Perspectives on AMORE: a Methodology using Object-Orientation in Re-engineering Enterprises....Pages 274-297
Co-ordination Adaptors: The Evolution of Component-Based Distributed Systems....Pages 298-308
Global Perspectives on Legacy Systems....Pages 309-316
Remembrance of Designs Past: Legacy Data, Organisational Memory and Distributed Design....Pages 317-330
Intelligent Software Support for Business Process Change....Pages 331-346
Modelling Collaboration in Loosely Coupled Inter-Organisational Relationships....Pages 347-366
RICES: Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions....Pages 367-371
Back Matter....Pages 372-383
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