A water jet machining is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using a very high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance. This paper addresses the concept of the Intelligent knowledge base system (IKBS) for optimization of product design and manufacturing process for water jet machining in computer based concurrent engineering environme...

Welcome to the Children’s Services Planning Group! Here our task is to find a way of integrating all the various specialist agencies –social services, education, health and so on– that provide support for children with problems or special needs, so that children and their families see us operating as a team, working together with the best interest of the child at heart, instead of the old way o...

Article history: Received 17 June 2013 Received in revised form 11 November 2014 Accepted 12 November 2014 Available online xxxx

The development of information systems (IS) requires methods that recommend how to act during the development process. In some cases existing methods cannot cope with the requirements of the project situation at hand. Therefore new methods must be developed. Method Engineering (ME) attends to this application field. In this article, we provide a detailed overview of IS method engineering approa...

This paper describes research in understanding the requirements for complex information systems that are constructed from one or more generic COTS systems. We argue that, in these cases, behavioural requirements are largely defined by the underlying system and that the goal of the requirements engineering process is to understand the information requirements of system stakeholders. We discuss t...

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In this paper we lay down the agenda for a discipline that is meant to promote research on increasing the development of secure information systems. In particular, we introduce areas related to the development of secure information systems; we identify limitations of existing approaches and the barriers that currently limit research, and we discuss the characteristics for an engineering discipl...

Patterns have been proposed as a means to preserve and manage knowledge. There area number of types of patterns dealing with diverse problems. These problems emergeduring the different phases of the information systems lifecycle. This paper presents acommon definition of the pattern concept. Thereafter the patterns are classified withrespect to what they deal with and when they ...

Recent Requirements Engineering research, recognises that successful system development relies upon the ability to model and understand the intentional structure of the organisational and business environment within which an IS is intended to operate. The importance of establishing and maintaining explicit links between information systems requirements and business goals is further emphasised b...