One of the key activities in developing information systems is that of modeling the constituent parts of both existing and future business processes so that the resultant system is aligned to the business. This duality of scope often referred to as co-development, provides the basis for aligning technical systems to business processes and business goals and has a profound effect on the effectiv...

The i* framework has been widely adopted by the information systems community for goaland agent-oriented modeling and analysis. One of its potential benefits is the assessment of the properties of the modeled sociotechnical system. In this respect, the definition and evaluation of metrics may play a fundamental role. We are interested in porting to the i* framework metrics that have been alread...

The i* framework has been widely adopted by the information systems community for goaland agent-oriented modeling and analysis. One of its potential benefits is the assessment of the properties of the modeled sociotechnical system. In this respect, the definition and evaluation of metrics may play a fundamental role. We are interested in porting to the i* framework metrics that have been alread...

This article describes a framework for extended service descriptions based on OWL-S (Web Ontology Language for Services) focusing on nonfunctional criteria. Necessary service management tasks will be introduced and extended by corresponding data elements and statements for its automated support. After a short comparative description of several existing approaches to semantic service description...

Current Enterprise Engineering state of the art does not fully address concerns such as bootstrapping and reengineering a working organization from the business perspective. It is currently focused on ontology, the constructional vision, rather than the function. We argue that the function design deserves no less modeling effort, as the construction design draws upon it. To this aim, a change o...

Defining all words in a Japanese dictionary by using a limited number of words (defining vocabulary) is helpful for Japanese children and second-language learners of Japanese. Although some English dictionaries have their own defining vocabulary, no Japanese dictionary has such vocabulary as of yet. As the first step toward building a Japanese defining vocabulary, we ranked Japanese words based...

aluminum phosphide poisoning (alpp) still has no efficient and approved antidote. supportive care and hemodynamic monitoring are the only choices of treatment. we proposed a new lavage formulation in addition to evaluation of its efficacy and defining the impact of clinical characteristics of patients on their prognosis. during eight months period of time, 120 patients were enrolled to the stud...