Creating agile business systems with reusable knowledge /
Agility and innovation are necessary to achieve global excellence and customer value in twenty-first century business; yet most approaches to business process engineering sacrifice these in favor of operational efficiency and economics. Moreover, the IT systems used to automate and encapsulate busin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Otros Autores: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Boxes; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 What is this book about and who should read it?; 2 What will the information be used for?; 3 Technology's broken promise; 4 Component reuse
- the genesis; 5 Scope of this book; 6 Foundation of knowledge reuse: three pillars; 7 How this book is organized; 1 On the nature of reality and the nature of business; Introduction to the MetaWorld; 1 The nature of knowledge; 2 Modeling the real world; 3 Metaworld of information; 4 Basic metaobject inventory
- 5 Metaobjects and the natural repository of knowledge6 The architecture of knowledge and the scope of the metamodel in this book; 2 The object at the root of it all; 1 Object class versus object instance; 2 The state of an object; 3 Inheriting behavior
- subtypes, supertypes, and partitioning of objects; 4 The problem of perspective; 5 Repositories of meaning; 3 The nature of attributes; 1 The structure of attributes and states; 2 Attribute constraints; 3 Naming and expressing attributes; 4 Domains and their expression; 1 The meaning and architecture of format
- 2 The meaning of units of measure3 Domains of meaning and the metamodel of object; 4 Storing abstract meaning; Appendix: Key shared components of knowledge described at the nexus of meaning in this book and its supplementary modules; Bibliography; Papers; Books; Index