Title:
Quality Analysis of Enterprise Information Systems.

Apostolos Zarras

Abstract:
Large industrial organizations strongly rely on the use of information
systems (IS) for the application of their complex business processes.
Consequently, IS users have increased non-functional requirements
(e.g. performance, reliability, availability, etc.) on the quality
of those systems. To satisfy those requirements, IS engineers must
perform quality analysis and evaluation.  Quality analysis requires to
check, analytically solve, or simulate models of the system specified
using formalisms like CSP, CCS, Markov-chains, Queuing-nets, Petri-nets, etc.
However, IS engineers are not keen on using such kinds of formalisms for
modeling and evaluating IS quality. On the other hand, they are
familiar with using ADLs and object oriented notations
for building models of the IS architecture.  Hence, a challenge today is
to render the use of traditional quality analysis techniques more tractable. Towards the
previous, this talk presents an architecture-based environment
proposed for the specification and quality analysis of IS at the architectural level.