This book emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this publication...

1. From collaborative tools to collaborative working environments / Wolfgang Prinz, Maria Antonia Martinez-Carreras and Marc Pallot -- 2. Towards a reference architecture for collaborative work environments / Vassilios Peristeras ... [et al.] -- 3. Emerging collaboration routines in...

"This book focuses on business process improvement, a key element of the most influential management movement since the 1980s, and how process improvement affects organizational knowledge sharing"--Provided by publisher.

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, electronic commerce, and enterprise applications, this book has been developed to focus on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Unified Process (UP) and other information modeling methods and methodologies, and involves conceptual, theoretical,...