Distributed Information Systems in Business
By: edited by Wolfgang König, Karl Kurbel, Peter Mertens, Dieter Pressmar
Contributors: Kurbel, Karl; Mertens, Peter; Pressmar, Dieter
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9783642802188; 9783642802164
Subjects: Economics; Management information systems
Description: This book gives answers to the question how distributed information systems can serve management, especially lean management. The authors develop new theoretical insights for the future of decentralized firms and offer concepts for creating and maintaining distributed information systems. The book contains interesting prototypes in logistics and financial industries and shows designs and applications of workflow systems. It offers a state-of-the-art survey of the subject.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Theoretical Section: INCOME/STAR: Facing the Challenges for Cooperative Information System Development; title: A Business Process Oriented Approach to Data Integration; title: Distributed Cooperative Budget-Planning and -Control; title: Organizational Multi-Agent Systems: A Process Driven Approach; title: Development and Simulation of Methods for Scheduling and Coordinating Decentralized Jobs Using Multi-Computer Systems; title: Distributed Environments for Evolutionary Algorithms by Means of Multi-Agent Applications; title: Application Section: Multi-Layered Development of Business Process Models and Distributed Business Application Systems - An Object-Oriented Approach; title: Computer Support for Distributed Information Management Tasks (CUVIMA); title: The GroupFlow Framework: Enterprise Model and Architecture of the Workflow System; title: ALLFIWIB: Customer Consulting in Financial Services with Distributed Knowledge Based Systems; title: A Generic Approach for Computer-Assistance of Complex Decision Processes; title: Modeling Knowledge about Long-term IS Integration and Integration-oriented Reengineering with KADS.