There is a growing interest in business modeling and architecture in the areas of management and information systems. One of the issues in the area is the lack of integration between the modeling techniques that are employed to support business development and those used for technology modeling. This paper proposes a modeling approach that is capable of integrating the modeling of the business ...

Business performance modeling and model-driven business transformation are two research directions that are attracting much attention lately. In this study, we propose an approach for dashboard development that is model-driven and can be integrated with the business performance models. We adopt the business performance modeling framework, and we extend it in order to capture the reporting aspec...

Qualitative spatial reasoning has many applications in such diverse areas as natural language understanding, cognitive mapping, and reasoning about the physical world. We address problems whose solutions require integrated spatial and dynamic reasoning. In this paper, we present our spatial representation, based on the extremal points of objects, and show that this representation is useful for ...

0278-6648/04/$20.00 © 2004 IEEE IEEE POTENTIALS Like any other scientific field, computing emerged as a brilliant idea implemented by brilliant scientists. Unfortunately, the only users of computers for many years were the brilliant scientists who invented them-because only they knew the language that the machines understood. Computers would never have revolutionized the world if the user base ...

In this work, the bond graph approach is employed to develop an integrated chemical reactor model, able to be exploited for supervision and diagnosis of industrial process. The obtained model is evolutive and generic comparing with the first principle methods. Moreover, this methodology is based on systematic approach which allows to represent the dynamic behaviour of complex process under non ...

The worldwide concern with corporate governance concerns itself, inter alia, with the risks that an organisation faces; for many, IT is significant among those risks. This paper examines the audit approach, and others, to dealing with risks in IT-based systems. This paper summarises the findings of research in IT-related areas of risk and then draws together a charter for IT governance that mee...

Our Workforce Planning Model and Tools are based on an integrated competency-based human resources model. Although this phrase may sound intimidating – particularly to those who are not HR professionals – the concepts underlying the model are intuitive and straightforward. Nonetheless, it is important to have a basic understanding of what competencies are, how to integrate them into all of an a...

Exiting street-level prostitution is a complex, convoluted process. Few studies have described this process within any formal conceptual framework. This article reviews two general models and two prostitution-specific models and their applicability to the exiting process. Barriers encountered as women attempt to leave the streets are identified. Based on the four models, the barriers, the prost...

The paper describes a model-integrated program synthesis environment for computer-based system applications. In Model-Integrated Program Synthesis (MIPS), domain-specific, multiple-view models represent the software, its environment and their relationships. Model interpreters translate the models into the input languages of static and dynamic analysis tools, and application specific model inter...

Parallel computer architectures based on such processors as the Texas Instruments TMS320C40, or the Analog Devices ADSP21060, are characterized by high performance and I/O bandwidth, flexible topology and low cost making them ideal for embedded parallel signal processing and instrumentation applications. However, the software of such systems is difficult to manage by conventional software engin...