A COTS-SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION METHOD FROM BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS Aslan, Ercan M.S., Department of Information Systems Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur Demirörs August 2002, 86 pages In this thesis, COTS-software requirements elicitation, which is an input for RFP in software intensive automation system’s acquisition, is examined. Business Process Models are used for COTS-software r...

Electronic markets are virtual meeting places where buyers and sellers meet and interact to trade products or services. In this paper, we consider an agent-based information system to support the ongoing negotiations among the traders in such a market. The information system's agents are active within certain market categories of which they carry a multi-criteria description. This enables the s...

The OMG has issued a Request for Proposal for a workflow management facility for the Object Management Architecture Reference Model. The two responses are complex object-oriented designs. Unfortunately, they both ignore recent work in object-oriented design patterns. Using these patterns will correct some of the deficiencies in the proposals.

An attempt has been made to form a reversed field pinch (RFP) in a poloidal divertor configuration which positions the plasma far from a conducting wall. In this configuration, the plasma is localized within a magnetic separatrix formed by a combination of toroidal currents in the plasma and four internal aluminium rings. Plasmas were formed with a plasma current of ~135 kA, toroidal field reve...

XMI is a standardized mechanism for exchanging UML models. However, this mechanism does not sufficiently fulfill the goal of a model interchange: it does not include the exchange of diagram information. XMI as defined for UML 1.x is only capable of transporting information on the elements in an UML model but not information as to how these elements are represented and laid out in diagrams. This...

Introduction I. The Case for Capacity A. Clarity B. Consistency C. Checks and Balances D. Summary II. Proposal to Expand Court Capacity A. Expand the Court 1. Size 2. Implementation B. Adopt Panel Decisionmaking C. Retain Limited En Banc Review III. Proposal Pros and Cons A. Potential Benefits 1. Credible Threat of Review 2. Entry and Exit 3. Court Composition 4. Court Cohesion 5. Judicial Educ...

Storage system designers prefer to limit the maximum queue length at individual disks to only a few outstanding requests, to avoid possible request starvation. In this paper, we evaluate the benefits and performance implications of allowing disks to queue more requests. We show that the average response time in the storage subsystem is reduced when queuing more requests and optimizing (based on...

When we think about the two activities of education and play, we tend to di€ erentiate them more by their purposes, end-points and goals than by their processes. It often seems that people are learning e€ ectively when they are `playing’, and vice versa. But, most would agree that the point of play is di€ erent from that of learning, while there is more interplay between the two than we initial...

This position paper reports on an initial investigation in the fields of MDA and generative approaches. Our view is that MDA aims at providing a precise framework for generative software production. Unfortunately many notions are still loosely defined (PIM, PSM, etc.).. We propose here an initial exploration of some basic artifacts of the MDA space. Because all these artifacts may be considered...

Confinement of both high energy and high temperature ions has been investigated in the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) Reversed Field Pinch (RFP), both in standard plasmas with magnetic stochasticity, and improved confinement plasmas in which stochasticity is reduced. We find that (1) energetic ions (produced by neutral beam injection) are very well-confined in the standard RFP plasma despite the...