This paper discusses the role of decision-making in the early phases of systems development, especially requirements engineering. Current business environment in telecommunications industry demands for collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. Understanding of users’ needs and capabilities to provide feasible systems and solutions require collaboration. We regard early commitments and the v...

This paper presents a novel Security Engineering Process for the creation of security-enhanced system models. The process offers a language for the definition of a domain-specific security knowledge language, the creation of security artefacts using the previous architecture and the use of these artefacts in a system model for fulfilling its security requirements and assurance. It makes securit...

Information System Engineering has made the assumption that an Information System is supposed to capture some excerpt of the real world history and hence has concentrated on modeling. This has caused the introduction of a large variety of models and especially conceptual models by which an information system can be modelled in high level conceptual terms. By contrast, very little attention has ...

In process engineering, as in many other application domains, the domain specific knowledge is far too complex to be described entirely using description logics. Hence this knowledge is often stored using an object-oriented system, which, because of its high expressiveness, provides only weak inference services. In particular, the process engineers at RWTH Aachen have developed a frame-like lan...

We present a general methodology for integrating arbitrary security requirements in the development of business processes in a both elegant and rigorous way. We show how trust relationships between different parties and their respective security goals can be reflected in a specification, which results in a realistic modeling of business processes in the presence of malicious adversaries. Specia...

Developing CAD systems for the design and layout of process plant involves an investment of millions of pounds. Today the proven benefit of using such systems is apparent, but without commitment and foresight from software developers such tools may never be seen in the market. One such product, PDMS, was a joint development between CADCentre, Isopipe and Akzo Engineering, started in 1974 and fi...

The software engineering process Knowledge Area has witnessed dramatic growth over the last decade. This was partly due to a recognition by major acquirers of systems where software is a major component that process issues can have an important impact on the ability of their suppliers to deliver. Therefore, they encouraged a focus on the software engineering process as a way to remedy this. Fur...

The need of taxonomy is vital for knowledge sharing. This need has been portrayed by through-life engineering services/systems. This paper addresses this issue by repair process taxonomy development. Framework for repair process taxonomy was developed followed by its implementation. The importance of repair process taxonomy has been highlighted.