Ajantha Dahanayake

Crisis response involves handling information intensive processes, and coordination of large quantities of information from and for different relief-response organizations. The...

Coordinating the response of multiple public agencies to a large-scale crisis is a challenge that has been studied predominantly according to the information-processing view. In...

A model is presented to evaluate the usefulness of learning objects for industry oriented learning environments that emphasise training university graduates for job opportunities...

Crisis response involves handling information intensive processes, and coordination of large quantities of information from and for different relief-response organizations. The...

Coordinating the response of multiple public agencies to a large-scale crisis is a challenge that has been studied predominantly according to the information-processing view. In...

Crisis response involves handling information intensive processes, and coordination of large quantities of information from and for different relief-response organizations. The...

Commercial airlines face an extremely challenging operating and competitive environment. To remain in business they must comply with everchanging regulatory requirements while...

Global information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access has stimulated a need to design and model the personalized information search in a flexible and agile way...

Personalized information seeking and retrieval is regarded as the solution to the problem of information overload in domains such as crisis response and medical networks....

Commercial airlines face an extremely challenging operating and competitive environment. To remain in business they must comply with ever-changing regulatory requirements while...

Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing...

One of the main challenges enterprises face today is how to manage complexity of systems being developed, effectively utilize the power of the Internet, and be able to rapidly...

Although implementation technology and standards for Component-Based Development (CBD) and Web services are nowadays widely used in enterprise system development, there is a...

Agile software development methods have been proposed as the way to address the problem of delivering high-quality software on time under constantly and rapidly changing...

Components-Based Development (CBD) and Web Services (WS) nowadays are prominent paradigms for implementing and deploying advanced distributed information systems. They have been...

The advances of the WWW have dramatically increased the need for efficient and flexible mechanisms to provide integration methods for multiple information sources, which has...

Components are already prominent in the implementation and deployment of advanced distributed information systems. Part and parcel of this development are the effective Component...

Components are already prominent in the implementation and deployment of advanced distributed information systems. Part and parcel of this development are the effective Component...

Although Component-Based Development (CBD) platforms and technologies, such as CORBA, COM+/.NET and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), are now de facto standards for implementation and...

This chapter introduces an approach concerned with the non-functional features of software systems. The specific objectives of the research focus on the possibility of developing...

The relationship between information systems development methods, organizational information systems engineering requirements, and the advantage of flexible automated support...

Historically the focus is on the theory of how problem-specific systems design tools can be supported by a Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME) environment based on service...

Today, components and Component Based Development (CBD) is seen as one of the important events in the evolution of information technology. Components and CBD offer the promise of...

Method engineering is a very young field. Generally, method engineering can be considered from engineering of an entire methodology for information systems development to...

The business issues of today are global in nature, for instance, organizational objectives may be as varied as increasing profits, obtaining faster product life cycles, or...

The relationship between information systems development methods, organizational information systems engineering requirements, and the advantage of flexible automated support...

In Chapter 2 an object model-based concept, the service object for the specification of basic services of a CAME environment, is given. The focus of this chapter is to identify...

An informal description of a CAME framework based on the service object concept is presented in Chapter 3. Now the focus will be on the representational formalism of a CAME...

Historically the focus is on the theory of how problem-specific systems design tools can be supported by a Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME) environment based on service...

The first case study focuses on evaluating the capability of the CAME environment of supporting a problem area that requires a structured analysis and design method. The specific...

This chapter focuses on exploring the capability of the CAME environment, to support a problem area that requires a design approach that uses the modeling techniques of an object...

Today’s information systems design and development activities demand flexibility from supporting arbitrary modeling approaches. Improvements to the business process as a result...

Today, components and Component Based Development (CBD) is seen as one of the important events in the evolution of information technology. Components and CBD offer the promise of...