Systems Engineering for Business Process Change : New Directions - Collected Papers from the EPSRC Research Programme

A collection of papers resulting from an EPSRC managed research programme set up to investigate the relationships between Legacy IT Systems and Business Processes, this volume reports the results from the projects funded by the programme, which ran between 1997 and 2001.

Asset Mapping - Developing Inter-Enterprise Solutions from Legacy Components.- Reasoning about Systems and their Properties.- An Abstract Architecture for Dependable and Flexible Distributed Applications.- CONVERSE: A Family-Oriented Software Development Process for Engine Controllers.- Application of an Agent Software Architecture for the SEBPC CARD Project.- Cheating Death: Better Software Evolution.- Initial Recommendations for Improving Maintenance Strategy.- Theory and Practice of Enhancing a Legacy Software System.- A Unified Mechanism for Information Systems Definition in Action.- Evaluating Information Technology: Lessons from Integrating Business Process Simulation with Computer Network Simulation.- Decision Technologies for New Bid Pricing Processes in Distribution Industries.- A Search-Based Automated Test-Data Generation Framework for Safety-Critical Systems.- An Evolutionary Systems Model.- More Legacy System Patterns.- The ERP Systems Development Approach to Achieving an Adaptive Enterprise: The Impact of Enterprise Process Modelling Tools.- Co-Evolution of Diverse Elements Interacting Within a Social Ecosystem.- Business and IT Perspectives on AMORE: a Methodology using Object-Orientation in Re-engineering Enterprises.- Co-ordination Adaptors: The Evolution of Component-Based Distributed Systems.- Global Perspectives on Legacy Systems.- Remembrance of Designs Past: Legacy Data, Organisational Memory and Distributed Design.- Intelligent Software Support of Business Process Change.- Modelling Collaboration in Loosely Coupled Inter-Organisational Relationships.- RICES: Reasoning about Information Consistency across Enterprise Solutions.- Author Index.