Aligning modern business processes and legacy systems : a component-based perspective / / Willem-Jan van den Heuvel ; foreword by Michael L. Brodie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452174803321
• Autore: Heuvel Willem-Jan van den
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2007; [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2009]
• ISBN: 0-262-29997-6; 1-282-10090-4; 9786612100901; 0-262-25713-0; 1-4294-6097-0
• Descrizione fisica: xxii, 206 p. : ill
• Collana: Cooperative information systems series
• Disciplina: 658.4/038011
• Soggetti: Management information systems; Information technology; Reengineering (Management); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy, large, and heterogeneous inherited information systems--known as legacy systems--find it extremely difficult to align their old systems with novel business processes. Legacy systems are not only tightly intertwined with existing business processes and procedures but also have a brittle architecture after years of ad-hoc fixes and offer limited openness to other systems. In this book, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel ; provides a methodological framework that offers pragmatic techniques for aligning component-based business processes and legacy systems.Van den Heuvel's methodology is based on three building blocks: reverse engineering, which allows legacy systems to be componentized; forward engineering, which derives a set of business components from requirements of the new business processes; and alignment of new business processes and componentized legacy systems. Van den Heuvel provides a theoretical foundation for these, with chapters that discuss component-based development, introduce a case study that is used throughout the book to illustrate the methodology, and assess methods and technologies for legacy integration, component adaptation, and process alignment. He describes the methodological framework itself and its techniques to align new business processes with legacy systems by adopting a meet-in-the-middle strategy. Drawing on topics from a wide range of disciplines, including component-based development, distributed computing, business process modeling, and others, Aligning Modern Business Processes and Legacy Systems offers theoretically grounded practical methodology that has been explored and tested in a variety of experiments as well as some real-world projects.

Corporal punishment of children in theoretical perspective / / edited by Michael Donnelly and Murray A. Straus

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958733003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven ; ; London, : Yale University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 9786611722968; 9781281722966; 1281722960; 9780300133806; 0300133804
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DonnellyMichael <1949->; StrausMurray A <1926-> (Murray Arnold)
• Disciplina: 649/.64
• Soggetti: Corporal punishment of children
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Theoretical Approaches to Corporal Punishment -- 2. Corporal Punishment in Ecological Perspective -- 3. Parent-Offspring Conflict and Corporal Punishment in Primates -- 4. Putting Corporal Punishment of Children in Historical Perspective -- 5. Grid-Group Theory and Corporal Punishment -- 6. The Origins of Physical Punishment: An Ethological/Attachment Perspective on the Use of Physical Punishment by Human Parents -- 7. Behavioral Theory and Corporal Punishment -- 8. Behavior Analysis, Evolutionary Theory, and the Corporal Discipline of Children -- 9. Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child: Lay Theories of Corporal Punishment -- 10. Difficulties of Making Rational Choices Concerning Corporal Punishment of Children -- 11. Unintended Consequences of Punishment -- 12. Moral Development and Corporal Punishment -- 13. Corporal Punishment of Children: A Communication-Theory Perspective -- 14. Conflict Theory of Corporal Punishment -- 15. Punishment of Children from the Perspective of Control Theory -- 16. Punishment, Child Development, and Crime: A Theory of the Social Bond -- 17. Exchange Theory -- 18. Corporal ; Punishment and the Stress Process -- 19. Corporal Punishment and Black's Theory of Social Control -- 20. The Structure of Family Rules about Hitting: A Family-Systems Perspective -- References -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite being commonplace in American households a generation ago, corporal punishment of children has been subjected to criticism and shifting attitudes in recent years. Many school districts have banned it, and many child advocates recommend that parents no longer spank or strike their children. In this book, social theorist Michael Donnelly and family violence expert Murray A. Straus tap the expertise of social science scholars and researchers who address issues of corporal punishment, a subject that is now characterized as a key issue in child welfare. The contributors discuss corporal punishment, its use, causes, and consequences, drawing on a wide array of comparative, psychological, and sociological theories. Together, they clarify the analytical issues and lay a strong foundation for future research and interdisciplinary collaboration.