Mario Piattini

Open source software systems have poor or inexistent documentation and contributors are often scattered or missing. The reuse-based composition and maintenance of open source...

Archeologists investigate some scenarios by trying to understand what they are observing and how it all fits together. Archeologists have to be careful to preserve the artifacts...

Open source software systems have poor or inexistent documentation and contributors are often scattered or missing. The reuse-based composition and maintenance of open source...

Corporations accumulate a lot of valuable data and knowledge over time, but storing and maintaining this data can be a logistic and financial headache for business leaders and IT...

Archeologists investigate some scenarios by trying to understand what they are observing and how it all fits together. Archeologists have to be careful to preserve the artifacts...

Organizations are increasingly choosing process-oriented organizational designs as a source to achieve competitive advantages. Business process models represent the sequence of...

Open source software systems have poor or inexistent documentation and contributors are often scattered or missing. The reuse-based composition and maintenance of open source...

Information technology in the workplace is vital to the management of workflow in the company; therefore, IT security is no longer considered a technical issue but a necessity of...

Applying software engineering to Cloud computing is a primary aspect to obtain a systematic approach to the development, operation and maintenance of software. As a result, there...

The quality of conceptual models directly affects the quality of the understanding of the application domain and the quality of the final software products that are ultimately...

The information society is increasingly more dependent upon Information Security Management Systems (ISMSs), and the availability of these systems has become crucial to the...

Business processes are valuable resources for enterprises to maintain their competitiveness. They are characterized by describing the set of activities that enterprises perform...

The information society is increasingly more dependent upon Information Security Management Systems (ISMSs), and the availability of these systems has become crucial to the...

In last years, software development activity tends to be decentralized, thus expanding greater development efforts towards more attractive zones for organizations. The type of...

Legacy information systems can be a serious headache for companies because, on the one hand, these systems cannot be thrown away since they store a lot of valuable business...

The concepts of Service-Oriented Architectures and Software Product Lines are currently being paid a considerable amount of attention, both in research and in practice. Both...

Mobile Grid includes the characteristics of the Grid systems together with the peculiarities of Mobile Computing, with the additional feature of supporting mobile users and...

The quality of conceptual models directly affects the quality of the understanding of the application domain and the quality of the final software products that are ultimately...

This paper proposes a multi-agent architecture and a trust model with which to foster the reuse of information in organizations which use knowledge bases or knowledge management...

In last years, software development activity tends to be decentralized, thus expanding greater development efforts towards more attractive zones for organizations. The type of...

Despite solid advances, numerous challenges have yet to be resolved by Web services-enabled service-oriented architecture systems. Web Services Security Development and...

The importance of the analysis, modelling and management of a business process is not restricted to a specific enterprise sector. In the field of health management, as a result...

Web portals are Internet-based applications that provide a big amount of data. The data consumer who uses the data given by these applications needs to assess data quality. Due...

This paper proposes a multi-agent architecture and a trust model with which to foster the reuse of information in organizations which use knowledge bases or knowledge management...

This chapter presents an approach for designing secure Data Warehouses (DWs) that accomplish the conceptual modeling of secure DWs independently from the target platform where...

Knowledge management (KM) is an important factor in organizational competitive advantage (Ichijo & Nonaka, 2007). Unfortunately, traditional KM initiatives frequently fail when...

Failures during the elicitation process have been usually attributed to the difficulty of the development team in working on a cooperative basis (Togneri, Falbo, & de Menezes...

The underlying premise of process management is that the quality of products and services is largely determined by the quality of the processes used to develop, deliver and...

This chapter presents an approach for designing secure Data Warehouses (DWs) that accomplish the conceptual modeling of secure DWs independently from the target platform where...

Efforts to develop Knowledge Management have increased in recent years. However, many of the systems implanted in companies are still not greatly used by the employees because...

Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software engineering approach that promotes the use of models and model transformations as primary development artifacts. Usually; there are...

Failures during the elicitation process have been usually attributed to the difficulty of the development team in working on a cooperative basis (Togneri, Falbo, & de Menezes...

Web information systems engineering resolves the multifaceted issues of Web-based systems development; however, as part of an emergent yet prolific industry, Web site quality...

Software engineering is of major importance to all enterprises; however, the key areas of software quality and software process improvement standards and models are currently...

Data warehouses are large repositories that integrate data from several sources for analysis and decision support. Data warehouse quality is crucial, because a bad data warehouse...

Organizations depend increasingly on information systems, which rely upon databases and data warehouses (DWs), which need increasingly more quality and security. Generally, we...

Web portals are Internet-based applications that provide a big amount of data. The data consumer who uses the data given by these applications needs to assess data quality. Due...

The use of Web portals continues to rise, showing their importance in the current information society. Specifically, this chapter focuses on portlet-based portals. Portlets are...

Organizations depend increasingly on information systems, which rely upon databases and data warehouses (DWs), which need increasingly more quality and security. Generally, we...

Multimedia content delivery applications are becoming widespread thanks to increasingly cheaper access to high bandwidth networks. Also, the pervasiveness of XML as a data...

Knowledge sharing is a collective process where the people involved collaborate with others in order to learn from them (Huysman & de Wit, 2000). This kind of collaboration...

From the beginning of the 21st century onwards, the software engineering community (industry and researchers) has expressed a special interest in software process improvement...

In order to properly understand a field, a researcher has to first understand the accumulated knowledge of that field. Micro-architectural design has accumulated knowledge...

This chapter introduces a way for assessing and improving information quality at organizations. Information is one of the most important assets for today’s enterprises since it...

This chapter introduces a model based on techniques from cognitive psychology as a means to improve the requirement elicitation in global software development projects. Since...

In order to establish itself as a branch of engineering, a profession must understand its accumulated knowledge. In this regard, software engineering has advanced greatly in...

It has been a long time since the object-oriented (OO) paradigm appeared. From that moment, designers have accumulated much knowledge in design and construction of OO systems....

This chapter presents a catalog of different rules for help to design object-oriented micro-architectures. These rules form an important part of the object-oriented design...

This chapter presents a new testing technique called “test-case mutation.” The idea is to apply a set of specific mutation operators to test cases for object-oriented software...

Fuzzy Databases: Modeling, Design and Implementation focuses on some semantic aspects which have not been studied in previous works and extends the EER model with fuzzy...

Knowledge sharing is a collective process where the people involved collaborate with others in order to learn from them (Huysman & de Wit, 2000). This kind of collaboration...

Organizations depend increasingly on information systems, which rely upon databases and data warehouses (DWs), which need increasingly more quality and security. Generally, we...

Organizations depend increasingly on information systems, which rely upon databases and data warehouses (DWs), which need increasingly more quality and security. Generally, we...

This book mixes concepts of different areas of knowledge or technologies, such as databases, system architecture design, SQL language, programming concepts and logic...

Both the problem of representation and the treatment of imprecise information have been widely discussed. Many references can be found in the corresponding bibliography....

On occasion, the term imprecision embraces several meanings that we should differentiate. For example, as you saw in Chapter II, the information you have may be incomplete or...

In this chapter we present the FuzzyEER Model, which is an extension of the EER Model with fuzzy semantics and notations. The Entity-Relationship Model was introduced by Chen...

The Relational Model was developed by E.F. Codd of IBM and published in 1970. It is currently the most used and has been a milestone in the history of databases, revolutionizing...

This chapter shows the transformation of the FuzzyEER model to a logical design by using relational databases. The FuzzyEER-to-Relational mapping algorithm is based on the...

The SQL language was essentially developed by Chamberlin and Boyce (1974) and Chamberlin et al. (1976). In 1986, the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) and the...

The applications of databases are immense. In almost all of them, the advantages of the fuzzy databases can be applied, exploiting their innovative features and possibilities...

Fuzzy logic (Chapter I) allows us to bring the operation of information systems closer to the working methods of humans. People frequently deal with fuzzy concepts (for example...

In recent years different areas of knowledge related to the construction of object-oriented (OO) designs such as principles, heuristics, patterns, and refactoring techniques have...

Data warehouses are large repositories that integrate data from several sources for analysis and decision support. Data warehouse quality is crucial, because a bad data warehouse...

The concept of data warehouse first appeared in Inmon (1993) to describe a “subject oriented, integrated, non-volatile, and time variant collection of data in support of...

It is known that organizations are very rich in data but poor in information. Today, technology has made it possible for organizations to store vast amounts of data obtained at a...

Some approaches about fuzzy ER/EER model have been published recently. Few of these works study how to relax constraints and other aspects expressed in the model. In this chapter...

Multimedia content delivery applications are becoming widespread thanks to increasingly cheaper access to high bandwidth networks. Also, the pervasiveness of XML as a data...

Advances in Software Maintenance Management: Technologies and Solutions is a compilation of chapters from some of the best researchers and practitioners in the area of software...

Software maintenance is the most expensive stage of the software life cycle. However, most software organizations do not use any methodology for maintenance, although they do use...

A Software Engineering Environment (SEE) is quite useful in order to manage the complexity of SM projects, since it can provide the needed services. Of the different aspects to...

This chapter proposes a set of metrics to assess data warehouse quality. A set of data warehouse metrics is presented, and the formal and empirical validations that have been...

Data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP) technologies have become growing interest areas in recent years. Specific issues such as conceptual modeling, schemes...

Data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP) technologies have become growing interest areas in latest years. Specific issues, such as conceptual modeling, schemes...

The diffusion of CASE tools, along with the ever more pressing problems surrounding the management of the systems development department, has meant that themes related to...

Software engineers have been proposing large quantities of metrics for software products, processes and resources (Fenton and Pfleeger, 1997; Melton, 1996; Zuse, 1998). Metrics...

Rapid technological advances in communications, transport, banking, manufacturing, medicine and other fields are demanding more sophisticated information requirements in...

In a global and increasingly competitive market, quality is a critical success factor for all economical and organisational aspects and especially in Information Systems (IS). We...

Society's growing dependence on information technology for survival has elevated the importance of controlling and evaluating information systems. A sound plan for auditing...

Whereas hardware technology has been developed with considerable speed, software technology has suffered from a historical delay in the elaboration and availability of a...

The need to have a separate database in order to support the decision process was first recognized at the beginning of the 1970s (Sprague and Watson, 1996). Although the term...