cognitive neuroscience prefers a reductionist approach to normal and abnormal brain functions. so, it tries to reducing causes and indices of cognitive and neural processes, in order to increases the accuracy in investigation and manipulation of variables. as a comparison, common diagnostic criteria for mental disorders utilize multidimensional global criteria that existence of some non-overlap...

Process-awareness in enterprise computing is a must in order to adequately support business processes. Particularly the interoperability of the (process-oriented) business information systems and the management of a company’s process map are difficult to handle. Process-oriented approaches (like workflow systems and enterprise application integration tools) offer promising perspectives in this ...

passing trough industrial revolution to achieve postmodern era, development of production and distribution facilities, development of communications, and economic and development of society structural changes and lack of accountability of functional industrial design to the human psychological needs, other products based on the particular response to the needs of a limited component design, suc...

Common engineering approaches and modeling approaches from software engineering are brought together. For the domain of process automation an implementation oriented approach for an object oriented software development for heterogeneous distributed systems is introduced. Model elements for control are added to UML as well as small-scale patterns for plant automation. Besides large-scale pattern...

An integrated management of business processes demands a strictly process-oriented development of the supporting IT. Process-orientation is especially promoted by Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), where loosely coupled business services are being composed to executable processes. In this paper we present a model-driven methodology for a top-down development of a process-oriented IT support ...