Distributed Information Systems in Business

Managing Distributed Information Systems.- Theoretical Section.- INCOME/STAR: Facing the Challenges for Cooperative Information System Development Environments.- A Business Process Oriented Approach to Data Integration.- Solving Decision Problems by Distributed Decomposition and Delegation — Foundations of a Theory and its Application within a Normative Group Decision Support System Framework.- Distributed Cooperative Budget-planning and -control.- Decentralized Problem Solving in Logistics with Partly Intelligent Agents and Comparison with Alternative Approaches.- Organizational Multi-Agent Systems: A Process Driven Approach.- Development and Simulation of Methods for Scheduling and Coordinating Decentralized Job Shops Using Multi-Computer Systems.- Distributed Environments for Evolutionary Algorithms by means of Multi-Agent Applications.- Application Section.- Multi-Layered Development of Business Process Models and Distributed Business Application Systems - An Object-Oriented Approach.- Computer Support for Distributed Information Management Tasks (CUVIMA).- The GroupFlow Framework: Enterprise Model and Architecture of the Workflow System.- ALLFIWIB: Customer Consulting in Financial Services with Distributed Knowledge Based Systems.- A Generic Approach for Computer-Assistance of Complex Decision Processes.- Group Scheduling — Methods and Tools for Distributed Scheduling Processes in a Corporate Environment.- Modeling Knowledge about Long-term IS Integration and Integration-oriented Reengineering with KADS.- Addresses of the Authors.