This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2015. The symposium was organized and sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and...

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2016, held in Rhodes, Greece, in June 2016, organized by the Institute IICREST in cooperation with BPM-D, Aristotle University of...

Introduction -- Theoretical and Conceptual Foundation -- Preliminary Research Model -- Research Design -- Descriptive Findings -- Single-Case Analysis -- Cross-Case Synthesis -- Summary and Discussion -- Conclusion. .

Vertragsvorbereitungen -- Vertragliche Regelungen -- Besonderheiten bei agiler Softwareentwicklung -- Besonderheiten beim Cloud Computing -- IT-Beschaffungsverträge mit internationalen Bezügen -- IT-Beschaffung durch die öffentliche Hand -- Einsatz von IT-Freelancern und Überlassung von...

Referenzmodellierung — Perspektiven für die effiziente Gestaltung von Softwaresystemen -- Fachkonzept eines konfigurativen Referenzmodellierungswerkzeugs -- Architektur eines konfigurativen Referenzmodellierungswerkzeugs — adapt(x) -- Anpassung von Referenzmodellen mit adapt(x) -- Vom...

Die Fähigkeit, Innovationen im Geschäftsmodell schnell und effizient in operativen Prozessen und IT-Systemen umsetzen zu können, ist in der heutigen Wettbewerbssituation von zentraler Bedeutung. In vielen Unternehmen schränkt die vorhandene über Jahre gewachsene IT-Architektur die...

A number of eminent authors take a look at aspects of application management from a range of practical and theoretical perspectives and present possible solutions for current challenges, demonstrating the close links between service creation and service management. Contents Cloud Computing...

This book examines reference modeling from different perspectives. It discusses reference modeling languages that provide special modeling language concepts for the development and application of reference models. The book also covers reference modeling methodologies, which additionally provide...

Oliver Skroch argues that the reuse of components and services counts among the few fundamental and most promising approaches to the development of high-quality and cost-effective application software. He presents research results related to strategic, tactic, and operational ranges of...