https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/17686 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:03:17 GMT 2026-04-28T17:03:17Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18694 A certification instrument for standards implementation Söderström, Eva The area of business process standardisation is a fairly new research area that has received much attention in recent years, both from the academic field, and from the practitioner field. One problem is that it is difficult for standards user organisations to determine that they have correctly interpreted and implemented a standard. Therefore, a certification instrument would help these organisations to achieve a more effective standardisation process, both with respect to time and effort required, and to the cost associated with implementing a standard. This is thus also the main problem covered by the thesis described in this paper. In order to provide an answer to this problem, five research questions have been identified that together can improve the situation. The intended result is a general certification instrument to be used in, or after, standards implementation. To our knowledge, no similar research projects are currently being undertaken, possibly because standardisation is such a new area of research. This research would therefore be a contribution to the research area as such. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18694 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19507 A language and an execution model for the detection of active situations Adi, Asaf This paper presents a thesis about a language and an execution model for the detection of situations aimed at reducing the complexity of active applications. This work has been motivated by the observation that in many cases, there is a gap between current tools that enable to react to a single event (following the ECA: Event – condition – action paradigm), and the reality, in which a single event may not require any reaction, however the reaction should be given to patterns over the event history. The concept of situation presented in this paper, extends the concept of composite event, in its expressive power, flexibility, and usability. This paper motivates the work, surveys other efforts in this are, and presents preliminary ideas for both the language and the execution model. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19507 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19444 An architecture and execution environment for component integration rules Jin, Ying; Urban, Susan D.; Dietrich, Suzanne W. The Integration Rules (IRules) project at Arizona State University (http://www.eas.asu.edu/~irules) is developing a declarative event-based approach to component integration. Integration rules are based on the concept of active database rules, providing an active approach for specifying event- driven activity in a distributed environment. The IRules project consists of a knowledge model that specifies the IRules Definition Language and an execution model that supports integration rule execution. This research focuses on the execution model and the architectural design parts of the IRules project. The main objective of this research is to develop a distributed execution environment for using integration rules in the integration of black-box components. In particular, this research will investigate the design of an architecture that supports the IRules semantic framework, the development of an execution model for rule and transaction processing, and the design of a rule processing algorithm for coordinating the execution of integration rules. This research will combine the distributed computing framework of Jini, the asynchronous event notification mechanism of the Java Message Service (JMS), and the distributed blocking access functionality of JavaSpaces to support active rule processing in a distributed environment. The limitations of the underlying Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component model pose transaction processing challenges for the integration process. This research will develop a suitable transaction model and processing logic to overcome the limitations of the underlying EJB component model. Furthermore, the architectural design will allow an easy extension of the system to accommodate other component models. This research is expected to contribute to nested rule and transaction processing for active rules that have not been previously addressed in distributed rule processing environments. The development of the IRules execution environment will also contribute to the use of distributed rule- based techniques for eventdriven component integration. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19444 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18239 An e-Business Model Ontology for the creation of new management software tools and IS requirement engineering Osterwalder, Alexander The goal of this paper is to give an overview of a thesis that focuses on the domain of e-business models and its application in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Requirements Engineering. The heart of the thesis is the development of an e-Business Model Ontology based on an extensive review of enterprise ontologies and business model literature. By merging the advantages of these two domains, one creates an appropriate basis for the development of a set of software prototypes that help managers understand, communicate and share, design and change e-business models. Further, such models that explain the e-business logic of a company would help IS designers better understand and implement e-business systems without reinventing strategy. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18239 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z