Enterprise Information Systems II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Invited Papers

   1. E-Commerce and Its Real-Time Requirements: Modeling E-Commerce as a Real-Time System

      • Albert M. K. Cheng

      Pages 1-6

   2. Developing Agent-Oriented Information Systems for the Enterprise

      • Jaelson Castro, Manuel Kolp, John Mylopoulos

      Pages 7-20

3. Enterprise Database Technology and its Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Simplifying Database Design and Integrating It into Dynamic Web Site Construction

      • Ian Newman

      Pages 23-29

   3. Process Enabled Information Systems

      • Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano

      Pages 30-35

   4. Information Security: A Logic-Based Approach

      • Steve Barker

      Pages 36-41

   5. Object-Oriented Decision Support System

      • Franck Ravat, Olivier Teste

      Pages 42-48

   6. Measures to Get Better Quality Databases

      • Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini, Coral Calero, Manuel Serrano

      Pages 49-55

   7. A GemStone GIS

      • Mary Garvey, Mike Jackson, Martin Roberts

      Pages 56-60

   8. Creating Realistic Data for Performance Evaluation

      • Chris Bates, Innes Ritchie

      Pages 61-66

4. Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Experiments in Optimising the Task of Anaphora Resolution

      • Constantin Orăsan, Richard Evans

      Pages 69-73

   3. Self Organising Maps for Value Estimation to Solve Reinforcement Learning Tasks

      • A. Kleiner, B. Sharp, O. Bittel

      Pages 74-83

   4. An Information Theoretic Self-Organising Map with Disaggregation of output Classes

      • Mark A. O’Connor, William J. Walley

      Pages 84-93

   5. Syntax-Directed Translation Schemes for Multi-Agent Systems Conversation Modelling

      • Ana Fred, Joaquim Filipe

      Pages 94-100

   6. Development of an Information System for Wind Power Stations

      • S. A. Papazis, M. G. Ioannides, P. N. Fotilas

      Pages 101-107

   7. An Architecture for on-Line Intelligent Control of Blast Furnaces

      • Javier Tuya, Eugenia Díaz, Marta Hermida, José A. L. Brugos, Angel Neira, Alfredo Alguero et al.

      Pages 108-112

   8. A User-Friendly Development Tool for Medical Diagnosis Based on Bayesian Networks

      • Isabel Milho, Ana Fred

      Pages 113-118

5. Systems Analysis and Specification

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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This book comprises the refereed papers together with the invited keynote papers, presented at the Second International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. The conference was organised by the School of Computing at Staffordshire University, UK, and the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of Setubal, Portugal, in cooperation with the British Computer Society and the International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group 8.1. The purpose of this 2nd International Conference was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances in and business applications of information systems. The papers demonstrate the vitality and vibrancy of the field of Enterprise Information Systems. The research papers included here were selected from among 143 submissions from 32 countries in the following four areas: Enterprise Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Decision Support Systems, Systems Analysis and Specification, and Internet and Electronic Commerce. Every paper had at least two reVIewers drawn from 10 countries. The papers included in this book were recommended by the reviewers. On behalf of the conference organising committee we would like to thank all the members of the Programme Committee for their work in reviewing and selecting the papers that appear in this volume. We would also like to thank all the authors who have submitted their papers to this conference, and would like to apologise to the authors that we were unable to include and wish them success next year.

• Analysis
• Bayesian network
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Syntax
• business process
• database
• decision support system
• e-commerce
• electronic commerce
• information system
• modeling
• multi-agent system
• performance
• security

• School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Beaconside, Stafford, UK

  Bernadette Sharp

• School of Technology of Setúbal, Portugal

  Joaquim Filipe, José Cordeiro

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