An authoritative source about methods, languages, methodologies and supporting tools for constructing information systems that also provides examples for references models.

Its strength is the careful selection of each of the above mentioned components, based on technical merit.

The second edition completely revises all articles and features new material on the latest developments in XML & UML.

The structure follows the definition of the major components of Enterprise Integration as defined by GERAM (Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology).

1st edition sold about 600 copies since January 2003.

Zusammenfassung
This book is the first volume of a running series under the title Inter- tional Handbooks on Information Systems. The series is edited by Peter Bernus, Jacek Blazewicz, Günter Schmidt and Mike Shaw. One objective is to give state of the art surveys on selected topics of information systems theory and applications. To this end, a distinguished international group of academics and practitioners are invited to provide a reference source not only for problem solvers in business, industry, and government but also for professional researchers and graduate students. It seemed appropriate to start the series with a volume covering some basic aspects about information systems. The focus of the first volume is therefore architectures. It was decided to have a balanced number of c- tributions from academia and practitioners. The structure of the material follows a differentiation betweeen modelling languages, tools and meth- ologies. These are collected into separate parts, allowing the reader of the handbook a better comparison of the contributions. Information systems are a major component of the entire enterprise and the reader will notice that many contributions could just as easily have been included in another volume of the series which is on enterprise in- gration. Conversely, some traditionally information systems topics, as - ganisational analysis and strategic change management methods, will be treated in more depth in the Handbook on Enterprise Integration. The two volumes will complement each other.

Inhalt
Architectures of Information Systems.- Properties of Information Modeling Techniques for Information Systems Engineering.- Express.- Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM).- Database Language SQL.- Petri Nets.- State Transition Diagrams.- The Process Interchange Format.- Process Language GPN.- The IDEF Family of Languages.- The CIMOSA Languages.- ConceptBase: Managing Conceptual Models about Information Systems.- Conceptual Graphs.- GRAI GridDecisional Modelling.- Modeling of Business Systems Using SOM.- Workflow and Service Composition Languages.- XML The Extensible Markup Language and its Use in the Field of EDI.- Modeling Information-Systems with UML Unified Modeling Language.- Information Engineering Methodology.- Object-Oriented Software Engineering Methods.- Euromethod Contract Management.- An Integrated Enterprise Modeling Environment.- WorkParty - Business Processes and Workflow Management.- Business Process Reengineering with PROPLAN®.- ARIS Architecture of Integrated Information Systems.- Tools for Analysis and Simulation: BONAPART.- MO2GO: User Oriented Enterprise Models for Organisational and IT Solutions.- IBM Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) An overview of the Insurance Business Architecture.- Fraunhofer Simulation Reference Models.- Configuring Business Application Systems.- The SIZ Banking Data Model.- ODP and OMA Reference Models.- Architectural Requirements of Commercial Products.- Integration Infrastructures for Agile Manufacturing Systems.- Distributed Processing: DCE, CORBA, and Java.- Higher Level Integration by Multi-Agent Architectures.