The need for mastering the complexity of software systems and the hereby related demands for maintenance and changeability is partly fulfilled by the principles and benefits of objectorientation. The basic idea behind object-orientation is to reflect the real world into the physical software model one is trying to develop. Although these ideas were introduced a long time ago in the educational ...

INtrODUctION Since the early 1990s, relationship-oriented approaches to product and services marketing have gained increasing interest by research and practice. While the overall approach of managing customer interactions has been inherent to the ways of doing business ever since, the recent change from transaction-oriented to relationship-oriented marketing is typically considered as a major p...

Treatment options for patients with schizophrenia demand further improvement. One way to achieve this improvement is the translation of findings from basic research into new specific interventions. Beyond that, addressing the therapy relationship has the potential to enhance both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments. This paper introduces motive-oriented therapeutic relationship (...

There are issues when researchers want to consider homogeneous, with regard to some functional relationship, groups. For example, in representative farm modelling analysts are interested in specifying groups of farms that have the same input/output relationship. This paper proposes to use the underlying functional relationship to derive such groupings. The paper employs finite regression mixtur...

Customer relationship management systems are introduced in many (especially service) companies to support relationship marketing. The frequently observed failure of such projects is attributed to a lack of or incorrect alignment in the analysis phase, i.e. specification of the strategies and processes to be implemented, which has become an accepted and perfected component of the implementation ...

Issues involving efficient data storage and retrieval have become increasingly important in the design of image database systems. The two dimensional B-string, a kind of symbolic picture representation, has been utilized for both characterizing the spatial knowledge embedded in images and for describing images with either partially or completely overlapping objects, without the need to partitio...

In this paper we report partial progress of our research about system comprehension. We used levels of abstraction and decomposition strategy to reduce system complexity. Concept Relationship Oriented methodology is one of its result, the methodology can be used, to develop new artifact for reverse engineering. There are two significant reported activities: searching Concept Representation, and...

An important key for mastering software complexity is the recognition that change is an intrinsic property of large software systems. The power of the EROOS method, developed to incorporate this idea in the software development process, is based on three important aspects : — A combination of behavior modeling with structure modeling : EROOS integrates these two modeling aspects from objectorie...