This article analyzes the complexity and dynamic of each kind of commerce network architecture from the system engineering. The thesis uses the complex self-adaptive system to describe the process of enterprise commerce network evolutionary. Bases on the drawing mechanism from enterprise commerce network transaction flow to the IT/EIS (information technology/enterprise information system) funct...

Introducing process-aware information systems (PAIS) in enterprises (e.g., workflow management systems, case handling systems) is associated with high costs. Though cost estimation has received considerable attention in software engineering for many years, it is difficult to apply existing approaches to PAIS. This difficulty particularly stems from the inability of existing estimation technique...

Fuzzy control systems have had various applications in a wide range of science and engineering in recent years. Since an unstable control system is typically useless and potentially dangerous, stability is the most important requirement for any control system (including fuzzy control system). Conceptually, there are two types of stability for control systems: Lyapunov stability (a special case ...

Project courses are a cornerstone in the information systems and software engineering education offered at the NTH (Norges Tel~ni~ke HCgskole = Norwegian Institute of Technology). In thi~ paper we present our two main project courses, one taught in the 2nd year and one in the 4th year. We focus most on the 4th year project course, which is the most special, in that there are real, external clie...

a School of Information and Key Lab of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (MOE), Renmin University of China, Beijing, China b Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China c Faculty of Business and Management, University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates d Vice President Academic, Al Ghurair University, United Arab Emirates e School of Economics and Managem...

This paper discusses the use of a shared cooperative notebook by a group of software engineers and support staff distributed over two sites The designof the notebook is described and results of the pilot trial reported It was found that the system was an effective means of shanng information for the non-technical staff but required much greater integration with other information systems and the...

For an information system (IS) to be useful, it must correspond in some way to the world. This is often described as a relationship between the model of the world that the IS maintains and the ‘real’ world outside the IS. But this talk of models and correspondence begs these questions: what does it mean for an IS to correspond to the world, and what is the purpose of this correspondence? Since ...

Importance measures in reliability engineering are used to identify weak areas of a system and signify the roles of components in either causing or contributing to proper functioning of the system. Traditional importance measures for multistate systems mainly concern reliability importance of an individual component and seldom consider the utility performance of the system. This paper extends t...