Enterprise Information Systems VI

by Seruca, Isabel; Cordeiro, Jose; Hammoudi, Slimane; Filipe, Joaquim

• ISBN13: 9781402036743
• ISBN10: 1402036744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) held in Porto in 2004, brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. It is now the largest Conference in Europe in the area of Information Systems, and one of the most demanding with only 15% of the submissions accepted as full papers.The papers selected in this book are selected from the different aspect covered at the conference including Databases and Information Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Software Agents and Internet Computing and Human-Computer Interaction.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Conference Committee	xi
INVITED PAPERS
Project Failures: Continuing Challenges for Sustainable Information Systems	1	(8)
P. Loucopoulos
K. Lyytinen
K. Liu
T. Gilb
L. A. Maciaszek
Large Scale Requirements Analysis as Heterogeneous Engineering	9	(15)
Kalle Lyytinen
Mark Bergman
John Leslie King
Evolutionary Project Management: Multiple Performance, Quality and Cost Metrics for Early and Continuous Stakeholder Value Delivery - An agile approach	24	(6)
Tom Gilb
Managing Complexity of Enterprise Information Systems	30	(7)
Leszek A. Maciaszek
Engaging Stakeholders in Defining Early Requirements	37	(6)
Pericles Loucopoulos
Organizational Patterns - Beyond Technology to People	43	(12)
James O. Coplien
PART 1 -- DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
Assessing Effort Prediction Models for Corrective Software Maintenance - An empirical study	55	(8)
Andrea De Lucia
Eugenio Pompella
Silvio Stefanucci
Organizational and Technological Critical Success Factors Behavior Along the ERP Implementation Phases	63	(9)
Jose Esteves
Joan A. Pastor
ACME-DB: An Adaptive Caching Mechanism Using Multiple Experts for Database Buffers	72	(10)
Faizal Riaz-ud-Din
Markus Kirchberg
Relational Sampling for Data Quality Auditing and Decision Support	82	(7)
Bruno Cortes
Jose Nuno Oliveira
Towards Design Rationales of Software Confederations	89	(8)
Jaroslav Kral
Michal Zemlicka
Memory Management for Large Scale Data Stream Recorders	97	(12)
Kun Fu
Roger Zimmermann
PART 2 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
Comprehensible Credit-Scoring Knowledge Visualization Using Decision Tables and Diagrams	109	(7)
Christophe Mues
Johan Huysmans
Jan Vanthienen
Bart Baesens
Dynamic Multi-Agent Based Variety Formation and Steering in Mass Customization	116	(11)
Thorsten Blecker
Nizar Abdelkafi
Gerold Krutler
Gerhard Friedrich
Multiple Organ Failure Diagnosis Using Adverse Events and Neural Networks	127	(8)
Alvaro Silva
Paulo Cortez
Manuel Santos
Lopes Gomes
Jose Neves
Mining the Relationships in the Form of the Predisposing Factors and Co-Incident Factors Among Numerical Dynamic Attributes in Time Series Data Set by Using the Combination of Some Existing Techniques	135	(8)
Suwimon Kooptiwoot
M. Abdus Salam
Information Access Via Topic Hierarchies and Thematic Annotations From Document Collections	143	(8)
Hermine Njike Fotzo
Patrick Gallinan
New Energetic Selection Principle in Differential Evolution	151	(7)
Vitaliy Feoktistov
Stefan Janaqi
An Experience in Management of Imprecise Soil Databases by Means of Fuzzy Association Rules and Fuzzy Approximate Dependencies	158	(11)
J. Calero
G. Delgado
M. Sanchez-Maranon
Daniel Sanchez
M.A. Vila
J.M. Serrano
PART 3 -- INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
Analysis and Re-Engineering of Web Services	169	(8)
Axel Martens
Balancing Stakeholder's Preferences on Measuring Cots Component Functional Suitability	177	(8)
Alejandra Cechich
Mario Piattini
A Polymorphic Context Frame to Support Scalability and Evolvability of Information System Development Processes	185	(8)
Isabelle Mirbel
Feature Matching in Model-Based Software Engineering	193	(10)
Alar Raabe
Towards a Meta Model for Describing Communication: How to address interoperability on a pragmatic level	203	(8)
Boriana Rukanova
Kees van Slooten
Robert A. Stegwee
Intrusion Detection Systems Using Adaptive Regression Splines	211	(8)
Srinivas Mukkamala
Andrew H. Sung
Ajit Abraham
Vitorino Ramos
A User-Centered Methodology to Generate Visual Modeling Environments	219	(10)
Gennaro Costagliola
Vincenzo Deufemia
Filomena Ferrucci
Carmine Gravino
PART 4 -- SOFTWARE AGENTS AND INTERNET COMPUTING
Teambroker: Constraint Based Brokerage of Virtual Teams	229	(8)
Achim P. Karduck
Amadou Sienou
Semantic E-Learning Agents -- Supporting e-learning by scmantic web and agents technologies	237	(8)
Jurgen Dunkel
Ralf Bruns
Sascha Ossowski
Seamless Communication and Access to Information for Mobile Users in a Wireless Environment	245	(8)
Golha Sharifi
Julita Vassileva
Ralph Deters
Agent Programming Language With Incomplete Knowledge Agentspeak (I)	253	(8)
Duc Vo
Aditya Ghose
Federated Mediators for Query Composite Answers	261	(6)
Dong Cheng
Nacer Boudjlida
A Wireless Application That Monitors ECG Signals On-Line: Architecture and Performance	267	(10)
Jimena Rodriguez
Lacramioara Dranca
Alfredo Goni
Arantza Illarramendi
PART 5 -- HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
Caba2l a Bliss Predictive Composition Assistant for AAC Communication Software	277	(8)
Nicola Gatti
Matteo Matteucci
A Methodology for Interface Design for Older Adults	285	(8)
Mary Zajicek
A Contact Recommender System for a Mediated Social Media	293	(8)
Michel Plu
Layda Agosto
Laurence Vignollet
Jean-Charles Marty
Emotion Synthesis in Virtual Environments	301	(9)
Amaryllis Raouzaiou
Kostas Karpouzis
Stefanos Kollias
Accessibility and Visually Impaired Users	310	(6)
Antonio Ramires Fernandes
Jorge Ribeiro Pereira
Jose Creissac Campos
Personalised Resource Discovery Searching Over Multiple Repository Types: Using user and information provider profiling	316	(9)
Boris Rousseau
Parisch Browne
Paul Malone
Micheal OFoghlu
Paul Foster
Venura Mendis
Author Index	325