Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The information industry scenario in year 2000, trends and change of focus, for the it professional and for the end-user.- Representation and utilization of non-functional requirements for information system design.- Alecsi : An expert system for requirements engineering.- Reusing requirements through a modeling and composition support tool.- The KIWIS knowledge base management system.- A functional method of data processing based on relational algebra.- Dealing with granularity of time in temporal databases.- Information as a strategic resource: A question of communication.- MetaEdit- A flexible graphical environment for methodology modelling.- PPP an integrated CASE environment.- Spade - Towards case tools that can guide design.- DBE: An expert tool for database design.- EcinsDesign: A graphical editor for semantic structures.- A case study using the IMSE experimentation tool.- A rule language to capture and model business policy specifications.- Information systems development using a combination of process and rule based approaches.- Towards automating software maintenance.- Software process planning and execution: Coupling vs. integration.- Cooperating transactions and workspaces in EPOS: Design and preliminary implementation.- Implementation and critique of an algorithm which maps a relational database to a conceptual model.- Attribute abstraction.- The essential system model.- Federated case environment.- An organizational information systems enhancement advice unit (oiseau).- Structuring modelling knowledge for CASE shells.- An object-oriented approach to model management.- Representing a system specification with a temporal dimension in an object-oriented language.- The OO-binary relationship model : A truly object oriented conceptual model.- Organisation's IT needs in the next decade - The swedish vision.