Business Process Modelling - Relevance to Systems Development
SitemapA notion of relevance is important for the assessment of knowledge to a problem. Relevance gives us those pieces of information that are pertinent to solving a particular problem.
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We also need to consider the nature of problems in general, and are we seeing some fundamental changes in the problems that we face, or are the problems the same old problems. New challenges are certainly presented by the size and complexity of new systems. New systems are handling over 10,000 function points, and operating within over 100 countries.
There are many different ways of modelling information that relates to business processes. In particular we have the current war for owning standards to define modelling to provide a more secure foundation for the development of business system in the future.
To understand the significance of a survey of modelling techniques, one must understand the usefulness of modelling, and also the limitations it provides. Modelling provides a convenient way to abstract problems to a level in which tasks can be easily categorised together.
SKEN580 Thesis: Optimising Business Communication with ebXML
Mention
Agents and UML?
Side Subject: Modelling Theory and Languages
Marco
Colombetti
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future
undefined commitments
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Agents:
design method
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goal
directed
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agent
vs component
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August
2003 OU
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Levels
of commitment
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Deontic
logic for soft spec.
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Statements
about the future vs commitments vs belief
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the role
that deontic logic plays in the specification of information systems
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system
constraints are considered ideal but violable, `soft' constraints
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, Professor Brooks
BDI
- Beliefs Desires Intentions
- Norm?
McCarthy and Minsky
- Minsky right “now”
- McCarthy always right “in the future”
1999
Cambrian intelligence : the early history of the new AI / Rodney A. Brooks.
1995
PDAs
Dell Axim
X5 Advanced
