Enterprise Integration and Modeling: The Metadatabase Approach / Edition 1

by Cheng Hsu

Overview

7. 2GIRDIMPLEMENTATION: AMETADATABASE 135 7. 3 UNIQUE PROPERTIES OF THE GIRD MODEL 140 7. 3. 1 The Metadatabase As an Information Resources Lnctionary 140 7. 3. 2 The metadatabase as the GlobaVEnterprise Schema 142 8 THE GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEM 145 8. 1 MODEL ASSISTED GLOBAL QUERY 145 8. l. l The Need for Metadata Support 145 8. l. 2 User Interface for Query Formulation 147 8. 1. 3 Integrated Schema for Global Query 147 8. 2 THE CONCEPTUAL MODEL 148 8. 2. 1 The Goals 149 8. 2. 2 The Defmitive Model for Metadata Requirements 149 8. 3 THE EXECUTION MODEL 156 8. 3. 1 Model Traversal 156 8. 3. 2 Rule-Base Conversion 157 8. 4 ANALYSIS 159 8. 4. 1 Metadata Modeling vs. Schema Integration 159 8. 4. 2 Conceptual Evaluation of the MGQS A~h 100 9 ADAPTIVE CONCURRENT ARCHITECTURE 163 9. 1 CONCURRENT ARCHITECTURES FOR ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION 163 9. 2 ROPE: A NEW SOFTWARE METIIOD FOR ElM 167 9. 2. l The Model of ROPE 167 9. 2. 2 The Static Structure of ROPE 169 9. 2. 3 The Dynamic Structure of ROPE 173 9. 3 THE OPERATION OF ROPE 174 9. 3. 1 Rule Processing Operations 174 9. 3. 2 Knowledge Management Operations 176 9. 4 IMPLEMENTATION: ALABORATORYEIM 177 9. 5 SATISFACTION OF ElM REQUIREMENTS 180 10 MANUFACTURING INTEGRATION 183 10. 1 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION 183 10. 1.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396475
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	11/30/1995
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Preface. Free CASE-tool. Related publications. 1. Information-integrated enterprises. 2. Systems analysis and design. 3. Examples of information modeling. 4. An enterprise modeling method. 5. The metadatabase model. 6. Demonstration of a metadatabase. 7. The enterprise schema. 8. The global query system. 9. Adaptive concurrent architecture. 10. Manufacturing integration. 11. Visual information universe. Index.

Editorial Reviews

The first full exposition of a technology for facilitating communication within an organization, being developed into a product for Samsung and the US Army at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Begins with a general conceptual framework of enterprise integration and modeling for the two target readers: those interested in the Metadatabase model as an integration technology, and those who also want a general discussion on information system analysis and design with applications in manufacturing. Other topics include the enterprise schema, the global query system, adaptive concurrent architecture, and the visual information universe. Includes World Wide Web addresses where a computer-aided software engineering tool for the method is available free. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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