Bernus P., Mertins K., Schmidt G. (eds.) Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems

Springer, 2006. — 886 p.This book is the first volume of a running series under the title International Handbooks on Information Systems. The series is edited by Peter Bernus, Jacek Blazewicz, Gunter Schmidt and Mike Shaw. One objective is to give state of the art surveys on selected topics of information systems theory and applications. To this end, a distinguished international group of academics and practitioners are invited to provide a reference source not only for problem solvers in business, industry, and government but also for professional researchers and graduate students.
It seemed appropriate to start the series with a volume covering some basic aspects about information systems. The focus of the first volume is therefore architectures. It was decided to have a balanced number of contributions from academia and practitioners. The structure of the material follows a differentiation betweeen modelling languages, tools and methodologies. These are collected into separate parts, allowing the reader of the handbook a better comparison of the contributions.
Information systems are a major component of the entire enterprise and the reader will notice that many contributions could just as easily have been included in another volume of the series which is on enterprise integration. Conversely, some traditionally information systems topics, as organisational analysis and strategic change management methods, will be treated in more depth in the Handbook on Enterprise Integration. The two volumes will complement each other.
The second edition of this volume is a representative survey on the most important results on Architectures of Information Systems which are presented by prominent experts.Architectures of Information Systems
Part One: Techniques and Languages for the Description of Information Systems
Properties of Information Modeling Techniques for Information
Systems Engineering
EXPRESS
Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM)
Database Language SQL
Petri Nets
State Transition Diagrams
The Process Interchange Format
Process Language GPN
The IDEF Family of Languages
The CIMOSA Languages
ConceptBase: Managing Conceptual Models about Information Systems
Conceptual Graphs
GRAI GridDecisional Modelling
Modeling of Business Systems Using SOM
Workflow and Service Composition Languages
XML - The Extensible Markup Language and its Use in the Field of EDI
Modeling Information-Systems with UML Unified Modeling Language
Part Two: Software Engineering Methods for Information System Construction
Information Engineering Methodology
Object-Oriented Software Engineering Methods
Brian Henderson-Sellers
Euromethod Contract Management
Part Three: Tools for Analysis and Design
An Integrated Enterprise Modeling Environment
WorkParty - Business Processes and Workflow Management
Business Process Reengineering with PROPLAN
ARIS – Architecture of Integrated Information Systems
Tools for Analysis and Simulation: BONAPART
GO: User Oriented Enterprise Models for Organisational and IT Solutions
Part Four: Reference Models
IBM Insurance Application Architecture (IAA)
Fraunhofer Simulation Reference Models
Configuring Business Application Systems
The SIZ Banking Data Model
ODP and OMA Reference Models
Part Five: Selected Topics in Integrating Infrastructures
Architectural Requirements of Commercial Products
Integration Infrastructures for Agile Manufacturing Systems
Distributed Processing: DCE, CORBA, and Java
Higher Level Integration by Multi-Agent Architectures