Enterprise Information Systems VI [Paperback]

This book contains the best papers of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2004), held in Porto (Portugal) and organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control) in collaboration with PORTUCALENSE UNIVERSITY, who hosted the event. Following the route started in 1999, ICEIS has become a major point of contact between research scientists, engineers and practitioners on the area of business applications of information systems. This conference has received an increased interest every year, from especially from the international academic community, and it is now one of the world largest conferences in its area. This year, five simultaneous tracks were held, covering different aspects related to enterprise computing, including: 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. The sections of this book reflect the conference tracks.Invited Papers.- Project Failures: Continuing Challenges for Sustainable Information Systems.- Large Scale Requirements Analysis as Heterogeneous Engineering.- Evolutionary Project Management: Multiple Performance, Quality and Cost Metrics for Early and Continuous Stakeholder Value Delivery.- Managing Complexity of Enterprise Information Systems.- Engaging Stakeholders in Defining Early Requirements.- Organizational Patterns.- Databases and Information Systems Integration.- Assessing Effort Prediction Models for Corrective Software Maintenance.- Organizational and Technological Critical Success Factors Behavior along the ERP Implementation Phases.- Acme-DB: An Adaptive Caching Mechanism Using Multiple Experts for Database Buffers.- Relational Sampling for Data Quality Auditing and Decision Support.- Towards Design Rationales of Software Confederations.- Memory Management for LalcÄ