Technologies for Business Information Systems Book

Preface     ix
List of Contributors     xi
Business Process Management
Conceptual Modelling for Grid Computing: Applying Collaborative Reference Modelling     1
Approaches for Business Process Model Complexity Metrics     13
Characterization and Tool Supported Selection of Business Process Modeling Methodologies     25
A Framework for Utilizing Preferred Work Practice for Business Process Evolution     39
On the Suitability of the Pi-Calculus for Business Process Management     51
Variability Modeling and Product Derivation in E-Business Process Families     63
E-Government
Investigation of Reporting Tools for Cadastre Information Systems     75
Internet Supported Mass Enrollment to High Schools     87
Dealing with Administrative Discretions in E-Government: The Citizen Consultation Model     97
Information Systems
Examples of Situation Spaces in Context-aware Business Solutions     109
ERP Implementation Effort Estimation Using Data Envelopment Analysis     121
Contrasting Rankings from Social Choice Aggregation Methods for Business Information System Selection in Multiple Case Studies     133
Managing Adaptive Information Projects in the Context of a Software Developer Organizational Structure     145
Requirements for Establishing a Conceptual Knowledge Frameworkin Virtual Enterprises     159
Two Methods for Schema Design for Intelligent XML Documents in Organizations     173
Is Evolution Benefit Assessment - Challenges with Economic Investment Criteria     183
Adaptive Human-to-Human Collaboration via Negotiations of Social Protocols     193
Is E-learning More Suitable for Full-time or for Part-time Students?     205
Information Retrieval and Filtering
Automated Acquisition of Semantic Relations for Information Retrieval Systems     217
Analysis of Query Logs of the Library Catalogues in the Internet Network     229
Business Process Retrieval of Company Policies     241
Utility of Web Content Blocks in Content Extraction     253
A Comprehensive Assessment of Modern Information Retrieval Tools     263
Polish Texts Analysis for Developing Semantic-Aware Information Systems     277
Ontologies
Temporalizing Ontology     289
Semantics-driven XML Data Exchange within Web-serviced Business Applications     299
An Ontological Document Management System     313
Cost Estimation for Ontology Development: Applying the Ontocom Model     327
Perspectives of Belief Revision in Document-driven Evolution of Ontology     341
Software Engineering
Assuring Enterprise-Wide Information Quality Management Capability Maturity      353
Involving Users to Improve the Level of Their Satisfaction from a Software Product Designed for Public Organization     365
Wrapping Semistructured Data to an Object-Oriented Model for a Data Grid     379
Script-based System for Monitoring Client-side Activity     393
A Security Evaluation Model for Multi-Agent Distributed Systems     403
Industrial Application and Evaluation of a Software Evolution Decision Model     417
Index     429