Advanced information systems engineering

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The book covers a diverse range of topics in agile software development, focusing on mobile information systems and ontologies. It delves into object types, part-whole relations, and distinctions between de re and de dicto. Key discussions include change detection in ontologies, automatic model translation generation, and the management of instance correspondence in inter-organizational workflows. A case study in the electricity sector assesses the feasibility of IT-enabled networked value constellations. The text also explores behavioral consistency for B2B process integration and information integration, featuring declarative XML data cleaning techniques and personalized ranking methods over distributed collections. Service-oriented architecture is examined through various lenses, including web service discovery, intentional services, and compliance tracking in healthcare. The book discusses the alignment of information systems with organizational strategy, as well as conceptual modeling of privacy-aware web service protocols and automated generation of service level agreements. In requirements management, it introduces methods for deriving product requirements and emphasizes the importance of stakeholder identification for improving software quality. Process modeling is addressed through business artifacts, communication abstractions, and formal verification techniques. Lastly, it highlights participative enterprise mod