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The use of formal models such as Role Activity Diagrams (RADs) for analysing a process often hide what really happens during that process. In this paper, we build on previous research on informal aspects of the prototyping process and look at the key concerns that prototypers had during the...
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As a means of contributing to the achievement of business advantage for companies engaging in ebusiness, we propose a … requirements engineering framework that incorporates a business strategy dimension. We employ Jackson’s Problem Frames approach …, goal modeling, and business process modeling (BPM) to achieve this. Jackson’s context diagrams, used to represent business …
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Two intensive, longitudinal case studies were conducted at IBM Hursley Park. There were several objectives to these case studies: first, to investigate the actual behaviour of the two projects in depth; second, to develop conceptual structures relating the lower-level processes of each project...
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, is based on unstructured information in the early stages which then affects the CIM level, e.g. a change in a business …
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Contracts between multiple business parties play an important role in a global economy where activities along the value … should shed some light on monitoring multi-party contracts in e-business environment, and should be especially useful to … researchers in business process integration, business process outsource monitoring, monitoring web service execution fields, or …
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. Business process modelling is one solution that is being increasingly used in conjunction with traditional software development …, often feeding in to requirements and analysis activities. In addition, research in Systems Engineering for Business Process … Change,1 highlights the importance of modelling business processes in evolving and maintaining legacy systems that support …
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In response to the so-called "software crisis', software prototyping has been widely used as a technique in various stage of systems development since the late 70's, and, with the growing sophistication of 4GLs tools and environments, it has becoming a popular alternative to conventional...
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Business process modelling is an area of work that is increasingly used in conjunction with software development. For … example, many development methods note the importance of strategic or business modelling, typically as a prerequisite to … analysis. In addition, Systems Engineering for Business Process Change suggests the need to model the business process in …
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The i* framework has been available in research communities for more than ten years, but it has not been applied widely in industrial requirements projects. This is despite undoubted strengths, which include a simple but formal and stable semantics, a graphical modeling notation that is simple...
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Different ways of detecting structural changes in email-based social networks are presented in the paper. A social network chosen for experiments was created on the basis of the Wroclaw University of Technology email server logs covering the period of 20 months. Structural parameters like degree...
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