Enterprise Information Systems : 9th International Conference, ICEIS 2007, Funchal, Madeira, June 12-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

"This books contains the best papers of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2007, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in June 2007." "The 6 invited papers are presented together with 23 papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 full papers accepted for presentation at the conference itself (out of 644 submissions). The topics covered are: databases and information systems integration; artificial intelligence and decision support systems; information systems analysis and specification; software agents and internet computing; and human-computer interaction."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Inter-enterprise System and Application Integration: A Reality Check....Pages 3-15 The 4 x 4 Semantic Model: Exploiting Data, Functional, Non-functional and Execution Semantics Across Business Process, Workflow, Partner Services and Middleware Services Tiers....Pages 16-26 Challenges in Business Process Analysis....Pages 27-42 Information Logistics in Networked Organizations: Selected Concepts and Applications....Pages 43-54 Service-Oriented Architecture: One Size Fits Nobody....Pages 55-62 Introducing an IT Capability Maturity Framework....Pages 63-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Incremental Transformation of Business Software....Pages 81-94 ERP Implementation Costs: A Preliminary Investigation....Pages 95-107 Enhancing Middleware Functionality by Virtualizing Adapters....Pages 108-120 On Handling One-to-Many Transformations in Relational Systems....Pages 121-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Named Entity Recognition in Biomedical Literature: A Comparison of Support Vector Machines and Conditional Random Fields....Pages 137-147 Key Elements Extraction in Online Collaborative Environments....Pages 148-159 Automatic Knowledge Acquisition and Integration Technique: Application to Large Scale Taxonomy Extraction and Document Annotation....Pages 160-172 Solving Airline Operations Problems Using Specialized Agents in a Distributed Multi-Agent System....Pages 173-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Case Handling Systems as Product Based Workflow Design Support....Pages 187-198 Performing Business Process Redesign with Best Practices: An Evolutionary Approach....Pages 199-211 Flexible Information Systems Development: Designing an Appropriate Methodology for Different Situations....Pages 212-224 From User Context States to Context-Aware Applications....Pages 225-239 A Balanced Approach to Developing the Enterprise Architecture Practice....Pages 240-253 A Business Process Modeling and Simulation Method Using DEMO....Pages 254-265 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Shaping Mobile Applications for the Future....Pages 266-275 Linking Requirements to EIS Specifications Using Correspondence Rules....Pages 276-285 A Property-Driven Approach to Formal Verification of Process Models....Pages 286-300 Front Matter....Pages 301-301 Bid Formation in a Combinatorial Auction for Logistics Services....Pages 303-315 A Fuzzy Logic Based Approach to Improve Cataloguing and Searching in e-Commerce Portals....Pages 316-327 Summarizing Structured Documents through a Fractal Technique....Pages 328-340 A Service Oriented Collaborative Distributed Learning Object Management System....Pages 341-354 Front Matter....Pages 355-355 A We–Centric Telecom Service for Police Officers to Support Communication....Pages 357-365 Recognition of Human Voice Utterances from Facial Surface EMG without Using Audio Signals....Pages 366-378 Back Matter....Pages - This book contains the best papers of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), held in the city of Funchal, Madeira (Portugal), organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and the University of Madeira, in collaboration with ACM/SIGMIS and AAAI. Furthermore, the conference was sponsored by the Por- guese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). ICEIS has become a major point of contact between research scientists, engineers and practitioners in the area of business applications of information systems. This year, five simultaneous tracks were held, covering different aspects related to ent- prise computing, including: “Databases and Information Systems Integration,” “Arti- cial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems,” “Information Systems Analysis and Specification,” “Software Agents and Internet Computing” and “Human–Computer Interaction”. All tracks focused on real-world applications and highlighted benefits of information systems and technology for industry and services, thus making a bridge between academia and enterprise. Following the success of 2006, ICEIS 2007 received 644 paper submissions from more than 40 countries. In all, 72 papers were published and presented as full papers, i.e., completed work (8 pages in proceedings / 30-min oral presentations), 198 papers, reflecting work-in-progress or position papers, were accepted for short presentation and another 131 for poster presentation. Contains papers of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2007, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in June 2007. This book covers such topics as databases and information systems integration; artificial intelligence and decision support systems; and, information systems analysis and specification