This paper presents an approach to design a multi-agent system managing a corporate memory in the form of a distributed semantic web and describes the resulting architecture. The system was designed during the CoMMA European project (Corporate Memory Management through Agents) and aims at helping users in the management of a corporate memory, facilitating the creation, dissemination, transmissi...

Many retail banks – those institutions serving individuals and small corporate customers – are entering in the virtual banking arena. Financial services and products are available to customers almost everywhere through a multitude of alternative channels: phone, the Internet, automated teller machines, and so on. From a technological point of view the problem is to design, build and maintain a ...

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is much in vogue both as an approach to the rationalisation of Corporate Organisations and as an aid to the design of the IT system which supports the Organisation. The eld of Software Process Modelling (SPM) started some 10 years ago with the objective of modelling and thence supporting the total set of software engineering activities necessary to develop ...

The Data Web refers to the vast and rapidly increasing quantity of scientific, corporate, government and crowd-sourced data published in the form of Linked Open Data, which encourages the uniform representation of heterogeneous data items on the web and the creation of links between them. The growing availability of open linked datasets has brought forth significant new challenges regarding the...

This paper presents, from the author's perspective , the problems that occur in practice during data modelling. The author's experiences are a result of a considerable number of projects which he carried out in the framework of his consultancy role at USU Softwarehaus in MM oglingen (Ger-many). These projects concerned the following themes: Corporate Datamodelling Comparing Datamodels Project (...

The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a language that helps to visualize, design and document models of software systems. It represents a collection of the best engineering practices that have proven successful in modelling large and complex systems. UML is widely used in designing large and reliable software systems required by banks and other corporate bodies. Students are encouraged to wor...

This study attempted to investigate the effects of corporate social responsibility on firm performance. It also tried to identify the mediating role of corporate image on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm performance. This research collected data on latent constructs through a questionnaire administered survey of managers across a spectrum of industries in Bangla...