Systems Engineering for Business Process Change: New Directions is a collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes. The papers contained in this volume report the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001. An earlier volume, published in 2000, reported interim results. Bringing together researchers from diverse backgrounds in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering and Business Schools, this book explores the problems experienced by IT-dependent businesses that have to implement changing business processes in the context of their investment in legacy systems. The book presents some of the solutions investigated through the collaborations set up within the research programme. Whether you are a researcher interested in the ideas that were generated by the research programme, or a user trying to understand the nature of the problems and their solutions, you cannot fail to be inspired by the writings contained in this volume.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 : Asset Mapping-Developing Inter-Enterprise Solutions from Legacy Components
Chapter 2 : Reasoning About Systems and Their Properties
Chapter 3 : An Abstract Architecture for Dependable and Flexible Distributed Applications
Chapter 4 : Converse : A Family-Oriented Software Development Process for Engine Controllers
Chapter 5 : Application of an Agent Software Architecture for the SEBPC CARD Project
Chapter 6 : Cheating Death : Better Software Evolution
Chapter 7 : Initial Recommendations for Improving Maintenance Strategy
Chapter 8 : Theory and Practice of Enhancing a Legacy Software System
Chapter 9 : A Unified Mechanism for Information Systems Definition in Action
Chapter 10 : Evaluating Information Technology : Lessons from Integrating Business Process Simulation With Computer Network Simulation
Chapter 11 : Decision Technologies for New Bid Pricing Processes in Distribution Industries
Chapter 12 : A Search-Based Automated Test-Data Generation Framework for Safety-Critical Systems
Chapter 13 : An Evolutionary Systems Model
Chapter 14 : More Legacy System Patterns
Chapter 15 : The ERP Systems Development Approach to Achieving an Adaptive Enterprise : The Impact of Enterprise Process Modelling Tools
Chapter 16 : Co-Evolution of Diverse Elements Interacting Within a Social Ecosystem
Chapter 17 : Business and IT Perspectives on AMORE: A Methodology Using Object-Orientation in Re-Engineering Enterprises
Chapter 18 : Co-Ordination Adaptors: The Evolution of Component-Based Distributed Systems
Chapter 19 : Global Perspectives on Legacy Systems
Chapter 20 : Remembrance of Designs Past: Legacy Data, Organisational Memory and Distributed Design
Chapter 21 : Intelligent Software Support of Business Process Change
Chapter 22 : Modelling Collaboration in Loosely Coupled Inter-Organisational Relationships
Chapter 23 : RICES : Reasoning About Information Consistency Across Enterprise Solutions
Subject Index
Author Index
