Pericles Loucopoulos

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, ER '94, held in Manchester, UK in December 1994. The ER '94 book is devoted to business modelling and re-engineering and provides a balanced view between research and practical experience. The 34 full revised papers presented are organized in sections on business process modelling, enterprise modelling, systems evolution, modelling integrity constraints, object-oriented databases, active databases, CASE, reverse engineering, information system modelling, schema coordination, and re-engineering.

13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, Manchester, United Kingdom, December 13 - 16, 1994 Proceedings

Entity-Relationship Approach - ER '94. Business Modelling and Re-Engineering

Jelena Zdravkovic

Fabiano Dalpiaz

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Sciences, RCIS 2020, held in Limassol, Cyprus, during September 23-25, 2020. The conference was originally scheduled for May 2020, but the organizing committee was forced to postpone the conference due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The scope of RCIS 2020 is summarized by the thematic areas of information systems and their engineering; user-oriented approaches; data and information management; business process management; domain-specific information systems engineering; data science; information infrastructures, and reflective research and practice. The 26 full papers and 3 work in progress papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Data Analytics and Business Intelligence; Digital Enterprise and Technologies; Human Factors in Information Systems; Information Systems Development and Testing; Machine Learning and Text Processing; and Security and Privacy. The volume also contains 12 poster and demo-papers, and 4 Doctoral Consortium papers.

14th International Conference, RCIS 2020, Limassol, Cyprus, September 23–25, 2020, Proceedings

Research Challenges in Information Science

John Mylopoulos

Kalle Lyytinen

William N. Robinson

Since its inception in 1968, software engineering has undergone numerous changes. In the early years, software development was organized using the waterfall model, where the focus of requirements engineering was on a frozen requirements document, which formed the basis of the subsequent design and implementation process. Since then, a lot has changed: software has to be developed faster, in larger and distributed teams, for pervasive as well as large-scale applications, with more flexibility, and with ongoing maintenance and quick release cycles. What do these ongoing developments and changes imply for the future of requirements engineering and software design? Now is the time to rethink the role of requirements and design for software intensive systems in transportation, life sciences, banking, e-government and other areas. Past assumptions need to be questioned, research and education need to be rethought. This book is based on the Design Requirements Workshop, held June 3-6, 2007, in Cleveland, OH, USA, where leading researchers met to assess the current state of affairs and define new directions. The papers included were carefully reviewed and selected to give an overview of the current state of the art as well as an outlook on probable future challenges and priorities. After a general introduction to the workshop and the related NSF-funded project, the contributions are organized in topical sections on fundamental concepts of design; evolution and the fluidity of design; quality and value-based requirements; requirements intertwining; and adapting requirements practices in different domains.

Design Requirements Workshop, Cleveland, OH, USA, June 3-6, 2007, Revised and Invited Papers

Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective

Roberto Zicari

Experts agree that major advances will be achieved in the development of information systems when the successful integration of conceptual modeling, databases, and CASE has taken place. Although many conferences and journals are devoted to these three individual areas and volumes of collected papers report on work in each area, there is a serious lack of material which interrelates the three fields in a cohesive manner. This important work provides a single reference point for anyone wishing to understand how these three areas may dramatically influence the development of information systems in the future. Written by leading researchers in these fields, Conceptual Modeling, Databases, and CASE clearly demonstrates that there are different models and techniques in all three areas and develops a framework for examining these models and techniques across the three fields. The following important issues are addressed: influences of new conceptual models on CASE methods and tools; influences of new database technology on CASE architecture and information systems development; impact of new conceptual models on database functionality; and impact of data base technology on conceptual modeling. This valuable book provides a general discussion of research directions in each area, reviews contemporary approaches and critically examines the relationship of the approaches in each section in relation to the other two sections. The first section of the book will deal with advanced conceptual modeling approaches. The second section presents the new generation of database systems and the third section discusses new approaches to CASE from both methodological and tools perspectives.

Pericles Loucopoulos

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