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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitra, Amit, 1949-
Otros Autores: Gupta, Amar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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