Innovative Approach in AGILE Policies Validation

Towards an Innovative Validation-Driven Approach to Lean Product Development

Many software products contain unnecessary functionality. Industrial reports show 45% of the features in analyzed software products are never used. Software-centric organizations have been trying to sustain their competitive advantage by re-defining their product development strategy. Recent attempts to re-strategize the product development process tend towards customer-centric approaches. We p...

An Innovative Virtual Enterprise Approach to Agile Micro and SME-Based Collaboration Networks

This paper demonstrates a lightweight and highly decentralized collaboration infrastructure approach for virtual enterprises and describes its added-value in the customer-oriented production domain. First, we will describe challenges and key requirements of an exemplary application scenario. Second, we are going to present the reference architecture and will explain the designs of enabling key ...

Validation of Security Policies

Security Policies constitute the core of network protection infrastructures. However, their development is a sensitive task because it can be in opposition with the security requirements (e.g. lack of rule or conflicting rules). A specification task seems to be indispensible in order to clarify the desired exigencies. A validation process for security policies becomes then necessary before thei...

Policies to support High Growth Innovative Enterprises

Validation of Agile Workflows using Simulation

Increasing automation of business processes and industrial demand for complex workflow features have led to the development of more flexible and agile workflow concepts. One of those concepts is the use of goal-oriented workflows, which rely on ideas derived from agent technology like describing the workflows based on a goal hierarchy. While this reduces the gap between business view and IT vie...