The assumptions, requirements, and goals of integrating existing software systems are different compared to other software activities such as maintenance and development, implying that the integration processes should be different. But where there are similarities, proven processes should be used. In this paper, we analyze the process used by a recently merged company, with the goal of deciding...

In the past few years, many Information Technology (IT) departments have been vastly expanded or created, and new processes have come into existence. With these increasing numbers of elements, organizations face the challenge of process integration. They must seek to integrate what are often rapidly changing sets of procedures to make processes work synergistically and maximize the return from ...

In this paper we discuss a software technology that supports computer integration within the problem solving process, independent of problem domain. Due to space limitation we present here a short but comprehensive version of this research and encourage the reader to access the extended version at URL https://www.cs.uiowa.edu/ ̃rus.

Although ontology reuse is an important research issue only one of its subprocesses (merge) is fairly well understood. The time has come to change the current state of affairs with the other reuse subprocess: integration. In this paper we characterize the ontology integration process, we identify the activities that should be performed in this process and describe a methodology to perform the o...

We report on a gas phase process to synthesize and integrate seed particles and inorganic nanowires with control over location, diameter, length, and geometrical orientation. The process flow begins with the gas phase synthesis and size selection of nanoparticle seeds. The seed particles are deposited onto addressable locations on a substrate by Coulomb force and fringing field directed assembl...

The Metamodel for Workflow defines the foundations in the area of workflows. It captures the main components of workflow systems and the relationships among them. It is used as a reference model to compare different systems in the context of a tool evaluation. Moreover, it structures the results of workflow methods which are used in the implementation. All these results are conceptual and indep...

Introduction: The main objective of this work is to show how process mapping may contribute to the improvement of intraand interorganizational integration of care. Theory and methods: Under logic of service integration, quality of care depends not only on how the internal processes are implemented, but also on the quality of the transitions of care with external entities. We conducted a case st...