"Data warehousing has captured the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But the design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and best current practice in data warehousing. For researchers and database professionals in academia and industry, the book offers an excellent introduction to the issues of quality and metadata usage in the context of data warehousing."--Jacket
The emergence and widespread use of personal computers and network technologies has seen the development of interest in the use of computers to support cooperative work. This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). This is a multidisciplinary area which embraces both the development of new technologies and an understanding of the grounding of CSCW technology in organizational practices. These proceedings contain a collection of papers that encompass activities in the field, including distributed virtual environments, new models and architectures for groupware systems, studies of communication and coordination among mobile actors, studies of cooperative work in heterogeneous settings, studies of groupware systems in use in real-world settings, and theories and techniques to support the development of cooperative applications. The papers present emerging technologies alongside new methods and approaches to the development of this important class of applications. The work in this volume represents the best of the current research and practice within CSCW. The collection of papers presented here will appeal to both researchers and practitioners alike as they combine an understanding of the nature of work with the possibility offered by new technologies.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Annual German conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2002, held in Aachen, Germany in September 2002. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The book offers topical sections on natural language processing; machine learning; knowledge representation, semantic web, and AI; neural networks; logic programming, theorem proving, and model checking; and vision and spatial reasoning.
The contents include invited talks and regular papers covering various aspects of software development and information systems. Topics range from the Unified Process for Component-Based Development to the transformation of business process models into application systems using the House of Business Engineering (HOBE). Key discussions include CPAM, a protocol for software composition, and a process-oriented approach to defining software components. The papers also address risk management in IT, linking business modeling to socio-technical system design, and enhancing methodologies with scenario-based techniques.
Support for process engineers is highlighted through the Spearmint approach, while managing componentware development emphasizes software reuse within the V-Modell process. Additional topics explore modeling multidimensional data, quality-oriented data warehouse usage, and the design of global data warehouses.
Techniques for identifying structural conflicts in process models and multi-variant approaches to software process modeling are also presented. The annotation covers the design of cooperative transaction models, multilevel secure workflow management systems, and customizable services for data-centric collaboration. Other significant contributions include practical approaches to accessing heterogeneous databases, uniform inter-model transformations, and modeling dynamic domains. The collection emphasizes adapti
