Knowledge map for distributed information system re-engineering

The distributed information system design decision has always been taken in the implementation step. The contribution of designer for this decision can decrease the evolutionary and the corrective maintenance. This designer’s contribution can be realised through the specification of integrity constraints at distribution step. In this paper, we illustrate the contribution of such an approach for the design of distributed information system and we explain how this approach will be taken into account for the evolutionary re-engineering of such systems. This approach relies on the knowledge maps established between designer and developer that encapsulate the set of information and thus contribute to the distribution implementation.