Systems Analysis and Design is a core component of most information systems curricula, and generally includes coverage of process modeling with data flow diagrams. In order to relate process modeling to something with which all students are familiar, the content of a traditional Systems Analysis and Design course can be supplemented with an ontological framework. This manuscript proposes that a...

{ The concept of retargetability enables compiler technology to keep pace with the increasing variety of domain-speciic embedded processors. In order to achieve user retargetability, powerful processor modeling formalisms are required. Most of the recent modeling formalisms concentrate on horizontal, VLIW-like instruction formats. However, for encoded instruction formats with restricted instruc...

PG.W is a workshop organized at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture in 2004. The workshop aims to focus on possible implementations of 3d modeling methods widely used in entertainment industry. By integrating 3d modeling means to the design environment, it is possible to enhance creativity and record design history, in other words, document and evaluate all stages of developm...

We argue that knowledge management cannot be separated from business modeling. Therefore, we start from a firm modeling methodology hereafter called “Approach Based on Contract” (ABC). In the ABC method, the contract (explicit or implicit) between a firm and its clients is the first step of the modeling. This contract is progressively refined in an interactive topdown and bottom-up approach in ...