Table of Contents

Chapter	Title	Author	Page
1	Architectures of Information Systems	Peter Bernus, Gunter Schmidt	1
Part One	Techniques and Languages for the Description of Information Systems		11
2	Characterizing Information Modeling Techniques	John Mylopoulos	17
3	EXPRESS	Reiner Anderl, Harald John, Christian P¨utter	59
4	ORM/NIAM Object­Role Modeling	Terry Halpin	81
5	Database Language SQL	Jim Melton	103
6	Petri Nets	Jean­Marie Proth	129
7	State Transition Diagrams	Jules Desharnais, Marc Frappier, Ali Mili	147
8	PIF The Process Interchange Format	Jintae Lee, Michael Gruninger, Yan Jin, Thomas Malone, Austin Tate, Gregg Yost	167
9	GPN Generalised Process Networks	G¨unter Schmidt	191
10	The IDEF Family of Languages	Christopher Menzel, Richard J. Mayer	209
11	The CIMOSA Languages	Fra¸cois Vernadat	243
12	ConceptBase	Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Matthias Jarke, Hans W. Nissen, Martin Staudt	265
13	Conceptual Graphs	John F. Sowa	287
14	GRAI Grid Decisional Modeling	Guy Doumeingts, Bruno Vallespir, David Chen	313
15	SOM Modeling of Business Systems	Otto K. Ferstl, Elmar J. Sinz	339
16	Workflow Languages	Mathias Weske, Gottfried Vossen	359
Part Two	Software Engineering Methods for Information System Construction		381
17	Software Engineering Methods	Wojtek Kozaczynski	385
18	Information Engineering Methodology	Clive Finkelstein	405
19	Object­Oriented Software Engineering Methods	Brian Henderson­Sellers	429
20	Euromethod Contract Management	Alfred Helmerich	463
Part Three	Tools for Analysis and Design of Information Systems		477
21	An Integrated Enterprise Modeling Enviroment	Florence Tissot, Wes Crump	481
22	WorkParty	Walter Rupietta	509
23	PROPLAN	G¨unther Schuh, Thomas Siepmann, Volker Levering	529
24	ARIS	August­Wilhelm Scheer	541
25	Bonapart	Herrmann Krallmann, Gay Wood	567
26	MO2GO	Kai Mertins, Roland Jochem	589
27	IBM VisualAge	Alois Hofinger	601
Part Four	Reference Models		615
28	IAA The IBM Insurance Application Architecture	Norbert Dick, Jurgen Huschens	619
29	Reference Models of Fraunhofer DZ­SIMPROLOG	Markus Rabe, Kai Mertins	639
30	Configuring Business Application Systems	Stefan Meinhardt, Karl Popp	651
31	The SIZ Banking Data Model	Daniela Krahl, Hans­Bernd Kittlaus	667
32	ODP and OMA Reference Models	Andy Bond, Keith Duddy, Kerry Raymond	689
Part Five	Selected Topics in Integrating Infrastructures		709
33	Architectural Requirements of Commercial Products	Ted Goranson	711
34	Integration Infrastructures for Agile Manufacturing Systems	Richard Weston, Ian Coutts, Paul Clements	733
35	Distributed Processing: DCE, CORBA, and Java	Andy Bond, Keith Duddy, Kerry Raymond	765
36	System Integration through Agent Coordination	Mihai Barbuceanu, Rune Teigen	797
	List of Contributors		827
	Index		831

of Peter Bernus