The design of an information system for a business process can be implemented either in the object-oriented paradigm or in relational database management system as per the client’s choice. In object oriented paradigm, the design starts with abstraction of objects, classes, attributes, functional dependencies, interrelationships and use cases but in relational database management system (RDBMS) ...

Technology transfers between software and hardware engineering date back to a decade and a half. Objectoriented technology from software engineering is one such successful transfer to hardware design. There is a natural correspondence between object-oriented concepts and hardware design. The work presented in this paper extends the basic application of object-oriented technology to system-level...

Object-oriented database design usually starts with object-oriented modeling of a database application, followed by transformation into an object-oriented data model for implementation. In this paper, we propose an object-oriented database design methodology. First, we present a conceptual model called the Integrated Object-Process model (IOP model). Then, we give modeling steps and guidelines ...

Collaboration platforms evolve into service-oriented systems, promoting composite and user-enriched services. The problem we address in this paper is the support of human interactions in SOA. Current collaboration tools do not support humans to specify different interaction interfaces (services), which can be reused in various collaborations. We focus on the design of Human-provided Services (H...

Technology transfers between software and hardware engineering date back to a decade and a half. Object-oriented technology from software engineering is one such successful transfer to hardware design. There is a natural correspondence between object-oriented concepts and hardware design. The work presented in this paper extends the basic application of object-oriented technology to system-leve...

(2010) Value-oriented process modeling : integrating financial perspectives into business process redesign. Abstract Purpose – Financial information about costs and return on investments are of key importance to strategic decision-making but also in the context of process improvement or business engineering. In this paper we propose a value-oriented approach to business process modeling based o...

Intelligent and comprehensive analysis systems are a powerful instrument for companies to analyse their business. The implementation of such analysis systems for an enterprise-wide management and decision support can be very different from traditional software implementations. Because analysis systems are strongly data-driven, the development process is highly dependent on its underlying data, ...

A small team at Huddersfield University are developing a methodology which commences with vision and goals of the business process, requires capture of the new process but facilitates development of process support systems as well as standard transactional systems and ensures the requirements of the process and its goals are met and traceable. While at the early stages the methodology intends t...

Human understanding in design evolves through a process of critiquing existing knowledge and consequently expanding the store of design knowledge. Critiquing is a dialogue in which the interjection of a reasoned opinion about a product or action triggers further reflection on or changes to the artifact being designed. Our work has focused on applying this successful human critiquing paradigm to...