Guest Editors’ Introduction: Global Value Chain and China’s Economic Development

Model - Driven Development guest editors ’ introduction

M odel-driven development is simply the notion that we can construct a model of a system that we can then transform into the real thing. By this definition, we are all—right now— model-driven developers. When we write a program in Smalltalk, Java, or C#, we don't expect it to execute directly. We expect it to be transformed into the language of some virtual machine that can cause our model to d...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Focus: Guest Editors’ Introduction

SOFTWARE IS THE number-one decisive competitive factor in the automotive industry. Innovations such as driver-assistance systems and energy-efficient driving require complex solutions with complex software functionality. Not only must the growing complexity be managed, but also safe behavior must be ensured. Global competition and fast release cycles enforce continuous efficiency improvement an...

Guest editors' introduction: Value modeling and business ontologies

Ontology research can contribute to novel tools, methods and techniques for designing and developing innovative enterprise systems by providing foundational concepts for value creation, enterprise systems development and systems interoperability. A main driver for research in this area is the need to model the essence of enterprises on a level that abstracts from operational details. For this p...