It is my pleasure to write the preface for Information Processing and Management. This book aims to bring together innovative results and new research trends in inf- mation processing, computer science and management engineering. If an information processing system is able to perform useful actions for an obj- tive in a given domain, it is because the system knows something about that domain. The more knowledge it has, the more useful it can be to its users. Without that kno- edge, the system itself is useless. In the information systems field, there is conceptual modeling for the activity that elicits and describes the general knowledge a particular information system needs to know. The main objective of conceptual modeling is to obtain that description, which is called a conceptual schema. Conceptual schemas are written in languages called conceptual modeling languages. Conceptual modeling is an important part of requi- ments engineering, the first and most important phase in the development of an inf- mation system.
Edited by:
Vinu V Das, R. Vijayakumar, Narayan C. Debnath, Janahanlal Stephen, Natarajan Meghanathan Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Country of Publication: Germany Edition: 2010 ed. Volume: 70 Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.050kg ISBN:9783642122132 ISBN 10: 3642122132 Series:Communications in Computer and Information Science Pages: 680 Publication Date:01 April 2010 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active