Information Modeling in the New Millennium最新文献

{"title":"Information Modeling in the Internet Age - Challenges, Issues, and Research Directions","authors":"K. Siau, M. Rossi","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch001","url":null,"abstract":"Copyright © 2001, Idea Group Publishing. Despite the rapid advancement of technology in the last few decades, accurate, on-time and on-budget completion of information systems development projects is still a vision rather than a reality. The software crisis is still very much alive in the new millennium as it was in the last. The sudden popularity of Internet and electronic commerce poses a new challenge to the software engineering community. With the increasing importance of electronic commerce in the beginning of the new millennium, organizations will be competing to design and develop Web-based applications. However, existing information modeling methods might not be suitable for supporting such activities. This chapter looks at some of the challenges and issues involved in engineering methods for analysis and design of Web-based information systems. It then discusses some of the research directions for information modeling in the new millennium.","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"8 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132112664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating Fact-oriented Modeling with Object-oriented Modeling","authors":"T. Halpin","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134629516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Business Action and Information Modeling - the Task of the Next Millennium","authors":"Pär J. Ågerfalk, G. Goldkuhl","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch007","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we discuss the importance of considering the action character of information when modelling information in business processes. The Language Action Perspective (LAP) is described and proposed as the perspective of choice for information modelling – now and for the future. It is emphasized that two of the most important research areas in the new millennium are to further develop LAP, and to operationalize it into systems development methods. Furthermore, the generic business framework of Business Action Theory (BAT) and the requirements engineering method VIBA/SIMM (Versatile Information and Business Analysis according to the Situation adaptable work and Information Modelling Method), as representatives of LAP, are both described and positioned within LAP. This positioning is achieved by elaborating different LAP approaches and their relationships to BAT and VIBA/SIMM.","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129180106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information System Design Based on Reuse of Conceptual Components","authors":"P. Bertolazzi, M. Fugini, B. Pernici","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126658916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial and Topological Data Models","authors":"Ying Deng, P. Revesz","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch018","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial and topological data models are increasingly important in business applications such as urban development planning, transportation and traffic control, decision support in agriculture, pollution and environment analysis, fire and flood prevention, etc. that require handling spatial and topological data more efficiently and more effectively than older models, for example the relational data model. In this survey we compare several alternative spatial and topological data models: the Spaghetti Data Model, the Vague Region Data Model, the Topological Data Model, Worboys’ Spatiotemporal Data Model and the Constraint Data Model. We first describe how spatial and/or topological data are represented and give examples for each data model. We also illustrate by examples the use of an appropriate query language for each data model.","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114434655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Object-Oriented Web Applications Modeling","authors":"G. Rossi, D. Schwabe","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123357172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Genre-Based Method for Information Systems Planning","authors":"Tero Päivärinta, Veikko Halttunen, P. Tyrväinen","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.CH005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.CH005","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION Currently, corporations implement diversified computer-based information systems (IS). These include organization-scale solutions such as enterprise resource planning systems, inter-, extra-, and intranet applications, product data management, and enterprise document management systems. At the same time, the end user is ever more capable of rapidly developing and tailoring small-scale applications for groups, organizational units, and personal purposes independently (Grover, Teng, and Fiedler, 1998). Furthermore, corporations are investing in information technology infrastructures that take full advantage of global networking and business process re-engineering (Broadbent and Weill, 1997; Grover et al. 1998). The emerging types of systems are becoming necessities in many smaller companies too. For example, a successful subcontracting network may require certain systems to be used by all the partners. (Song and Nagi, 1997; Toh, Newman and Bell, 1998). Evidently, the above trends call for a holistic but dynamic organizational perspective on information systems planning1 (ISP) (Huysman, Fischer and Heng, 1994; Grover et al., 1998; Spil & Salmela, 1999). We define ISP as a dynamic process where IS development and use are planned to better assist an organization in serving its purposes. This definition is in line with many authors’ definitions on strategic ISP (Lederer and Sethi, 1988; Fitzgerald, 1993; Spil and Salmela, 1999). It does not explicitly mention the concept of competitive/strategic advantage2 . By such a scope we like to extend the area of ISP to be more suitable for different organizations with different purposes and to remind","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128693048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Information Management Environment Based on the Model of Object Primitives","authors":"N. Georgalas","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch010","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION The explosive emergence of distributed computing environments and component-based architectures increases the demand for flexible information modeling paradigms. A review of the state-of-the-art shows that contemporary modeling methods and technology, such as object-orientation (OO) and CORBA, facilitate to an extent the functional integration of heterogeneous information management systems. However, there are still issues to be resolved that mainly involve (i) the inflexibility of modeling semantics adopted by OO methods, (ii) the complication of developing new service components and their deployment in a distributed management environment. This chapter attempts to pinpoint some of those difficulties and suggests ways to overcome them. In this direction, we give a short overview of the problems encountered in the current state-of-the-art that act as motivation for this research. In response to challenges identified, we then continue on two main strands of analysis, one theoretical and one practical. In the theoretical part we introduce the Model of Object Primitives. It aims at providing a more flexible way to model information. The main objective here is to simply pinpoint the basic principles and elements of the model and not provide a thorough analysis of its semantics. The semantics of the","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134483131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Systematic Relationship Analysis for Modeling Information Domains","authors":"Joonhee Yoo, M. Bieber","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch024","url":null,"abstract":"Many conceptual modeling and system design methodologies provide tools to help system designers to model the real world. No guidelines exist, however, for determining the relationships within conceptual domains or implementations. RNA (Relationship Navigation Analysis), based on a generic relationship taxonomy, provides a systematic way of identifying useful relationships in application domains. Developers can then implement each relationship as a link. Viewing an application domain from the relationship management point of view and modeling from a philosophy of maximum access provides a unique vantage point for application design. We present RNA and its generic relationship taxonomy, describing their use for system analysis. 1. Motivation When reengineering a legacy system for the World Wide Web or developing a new Web application, how does a systems developer determine what to link? A vital aspect of hypermedia system design is identifying relationships and implementing them as links [Fielding et al., 1998]. Yet, many relationships in applications—including analytic applications—are poorly identified or ignored in current hypermedia design methodologies [Isakowitz et al., 1995, Koufaris, 1998, Lange, 1994, Schwabe et al., 1996]. Furthermore, many Web applications do not take advantage of the major hypermedia features of the Web—linking, structural and navigational features. Few designers explicitly think about their applications' interrelationships and whether users should access and navigate them directly. This occurs for several reasons [Bieber and Vitali, 1997]. In part, existing applications demonstrate a rich link structure that could serve as examples for system developers. In part, few tools exist that help system developers to think of an application in terms of its relationships [Bieber, 1998a, Bieber, 1998b]. RNA (Relationship Navigation Analysis) was developed to solve these problems. RNA can be used as part of a systems analysis, either to thoroughly describe an existing system (or information domain) in terms of its relationships, or to understand a system being designed. RNA provides systems analysts with a systematic technique for determining the relationship structure of an application, helping them to discover all potentially useful relationships in application domains. These later may be implemented as links. RNA also helps determine appropriate navigational structures on top of these links. RNA enhances system developers' understanding of application domains by broadening and deepening their conceptual model of the domain. Developers can then","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125308590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metrics for Managing Quality in Information Modeling","authors":"M. Piattini, M. Genero, C. Calero, Macario Polo, F. Ruiz","doi":"10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":326533,"journal":{"name":"Information Modeling in the New Millennium","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133847219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}