This paper reports on new agile approaches and methods for design modelling of collaborative networked enterprises, ranging from small manufacturing supply-chains to major public service organizations. Use-cases in selected fields have been implemented by agile modelling and holistic design of collaborative networking capabilities, and active knowledge architecture driven solutions. The active ...

IT management has many facets, defining blueprints and guidelines for application architectures or planning the further development of the IT landscape are two typical examples. The BMW Group established four IT management processes for strategy, architecture, planning and control, which are linked to the IT project life cycle. But if these processes are not supported by an enterprise architect...

the holistic approach encourages the client to  include rehabilitation strategies that support the general person condition. in this approach in every condition of physical and mental health, decreasing stress and increasing person's immunity and psychological resilience can help the whole body cope better, rehabilitate more quickly, and maintain better health. holistic treatment means that the...

The SOA Innovation Lab has investigated the use of standard software packages in a service-oriented context. As a result, we present a holistic approach for developing a service-oriented enterprise architecture with custom and standard software packages. It starts on enterprise level with the identification of domains where both the SOA paradigm and standard software are of relevance. Here SOA ...

Monitoring outdoor environments through networks of wireless sensors has received interest for collecting physical and chemical samples at high spatial and temporal scales. A central challenge to environmental monitoring applications of sensor networks is the short communication range of the sensor nodes, which increases the complexity and cost of monitoring commodities that are located in geog...

Standard techniques for studying biological systems largely focus on their dynamical or, more recently, their informational properties, usually taking either a reductionist or holistic perspective. Yet, studying only individual system elements or the dynamics of the system as a whole disregards the organizational structure of the system-whether there are subsets of elements with joint causes or...

Currently, the importance of developing usable software is widely known. For this reason, there are many usability recommendations related to system functionality (called functional usability features). If these functional usability features are not considered from the very early steps of the software development, they require many changes in the system architecture. However, the inclusion of u...

The optimality and maintainability of fault tolerance mechanisms in a computer system has typically not been a major topic of concern, mostly because fault tolerance is a non-functional system requirement. This paper proposes a Holistic Fault Tolerance architecture, based on a centralised fault tolerance management, with related functionality distributed across the entire system. The most suita...

We present a new paradigm for multimedia information access, named the “Holistic” information access paradigm, and its underlying architecture, the 3C (Content, context, and common-background) knowledge integration architecture. The holistic information access approach is context-sensitive, concept-based, and proactive. “Context-sensitive” means that the approach incorporates the characteristic...