Exception handling is a structuring technique that facilitates the design of systems by encapsulating the process of error recovery. Exception handling has been traditionally associated with the design phase of the software lifecycle, during which all the effort is made to protect the application software from faults that may be introduced during requirements, design, and implementation, or can...

Spreadsheets are among the most widely used tools in systems engineering, especially for documenting system requirements and tests, and for supporting tasks like impact analysis, traceability management and project planning. We argue for the treatment of spreadsheets as models, in order to support the systems engineering lifecycle, and to provide a suitable migration path for organisations to f...

The Semantic Web, especially in the light of the current focus on its nature as a Web of Data, is a data-centric system, and arguably the largest such system in existence. Data is being created, published, exported, imported, used, transformed and re-used, by different parties and for different purposes. Together, these actions form a lifecycle of data on the Semantic Web. Understanding this li...

Much information is needed to manage the activities and events that occur throughout the lifecycle of an infrastructure system. Conventional Infrastructure Management Systems provide only limited support for representing, visualizing and analyzing the spatio-temporal relationships throughout the lifecycle of the infrastructure. This paper proposes a method that integrates 4D modeling with sever...

With rising trading volumes and increasing risks in securities transactions, the securities industry is making an effort to shorten the trade lifecycle and minimize transaction risks. While attempting to achieve this, exception management is crucial to pass trade information within the trade lifecycle in a timely and accurate fashion. For a competitive solution to exception management, a web-se...

Document management inside an organization is an interesting socio-technical problem. This paper considers Intranet Document Management as a knowledge ecology and presents a document lifecycle model consisting of five phases: creation, publication, organization, access, and destruction (adapted from [13]). Specific attention is paid to the knowledge ecology issues faced by document management s...

During the development of context aware applications a context management component must traditionally be created. This task requires specialist context lifecycle management expertise and hence can be a significant deterrent to application development. It also removes the developers focus from differentiation of their application to an oft repeated development task. This issue can be addressed ...

This paper presents an evaluation framework within a lifecycle and stakeholder-oriented approach to support development of a virtual enterprise. With the purpose of providing a conceptual understanding of the lifecycle based approach and proving the concept, a case study is carried out within DIECoM, an IST project funded under the EC’s Framework V programme. Consequently, there is a set of heu...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) innovates as it defines both the product as a central element to aggregate enterprise information and the lifecycle as a new time dimension for information integration and analysis. Because of its potential benefits to shorten innovation lead-times and to reduce costs, PLM has attracted a lot of attention at industry and at research. However, the current PLM i...

Information security ≠ information system + security features such as access control and intrusion detection. Security considerations must be an integral part of the entire lifecycle of the information system. This paper presents a framework to systematically classify all security considerations throughout the lifecycle of an information system. This framework can be seamless integrated into ma...