Ebook: Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Third International Conference CAiSE '91 Trondheim, Norway, May 13–15, 1991 Proceedings

CAiSE '91, held at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in May 1991, is the third in a series of conferences on advanced information systems engineering. The call for papers for CAiSE '91 was given a wide international distribution. The programme committee was chosen from very well reputed researchers in the international information systems engineering community, as well as key professionals in European industrial and consultant companies. The number and quality of papers submitted was very satisfactory, and 29 papers were selected for publication in this volume.

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CAiSE '91, held at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in May 1991, is the third in a series of conferences on advanced information systems engineering. The call for papers for CAiSE '91 was given a wide international distribution. The programme committee was chosen from very well reputed researchers in the international information systems engineering community, as well as key professionals in European industrial and consultant companies. The number and quality of papers submitted was very satisfactory, and 29 papers were selected for publication in this volume.

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CAiSE '91, held at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in May 1991, is the third in a series of conferences on advanced information systems engineering. The call for papers for CAiSE '91 was given a wide international distribution. The programme committee was chosen from very well reputed researchers in the international information systems engineering community, as well as key professionals in European industrial and consultant companies. The number and quality of papers submitted was very satisfactory, and 29 papers were selected for publication in this volume.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Representation and utilization of non-functional requirements for information system design....Pages 1-4
Alecsi : An expert system for requirements engineering....Pages 5-30
Reusing requirements through a modeling and composition support tool....Pages 31-49
The KIWIS knowledge base management system....Pages 50-78
A functional method of data processing based on relational algebra....Pages 79-97
Dealing with granularity of time in temporal databases....Pages 98-123
Information as a strategic resource: A question of communication....Pages 124-140
MetaEdit— A flexible graphical environment for methodology modelling....Pages 141-167
PPP an integrated CASE environment....Pages 168-193
Spade — Towards case tools that can guide design....Pages 194-221
DBE: An expert tool for database design....Pages 222-239
EcinsDesign: A graphical editor for semantic structures....Pages 240-263
A case study using the IMSE experimentation tool....Pages 264-283
A rule language to capture and model business policy specifications....Pages 284-306
Information systems development using a combination of process and rule based approaches....Pages 307-318
Towards automating software maintenance....Pages 319-335
Software process planning and execution: Coupling vs. integration....Pages 336-355
Cooperating transactions and workspaces in EPOS: Design and preliminary implementation....Pages 356-374
Implementation and critique of an algorithm which maps a relational database to a conceptual model....Pages 375-392
Attribute abstraction....Pages 393-415
The essential system model....Pages 416-440
Federated case environment....Pages 441-460
An organizational information systems enhancement advice unit (oiseau)....Pages 461-478
Structuring modelling knowledge for CASE shells....Pages 479-501
An object-oriented approach to model management....Pages 502-524
Representing a system specification with a temporal dimension in an object-oriented language....Pages 525-539
The OO-binary relationship model : A truly object oriented conceptual model....Pages 540-560
Organisation's IT needs in the next decade — The swedish vision....Pages 561-578
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