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CAISE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Method for Service Identification from Business Process Models in a SOA Approach
Abstract. Various approaches for services development in SOA propose business processes as a starting point. However, there is a lack of systematic methods for services identificat...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Flávia Maria Sa...
PDC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The impact of participation in information system design: a comparison of contextual placements
To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
Magnus Irestig, Henrik Eriksson, Toomas Timpka
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Theory-driven design strategies for technologies that support behavior change in everyday life
In this paper, we propose design strategies for persuasive technologies that help people who want to change their everyday behaviors. Our strategies use theory and prior work to s...
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, James A. Landay
DESRIST
2009
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Coordination analysis: a method for deriving use cases from process dependencies
Despite the widespread recognition that information technology (IT) and business process are tightly connected, existing system design methods provide limited guidance on how to t...
Xiang Michelle Liu, George M. Wyner