Wilhelm Hasselbring – Communications of the ACM

Opinion Dec 1 2006

Liability Risks in Reusing Third-Party Software

Reuse of well-tried components promises cost-effective construction of high-quality software systems. With this approach, third-party software components are usually integrated into complex software systems. The risks of using such components of different suppliers are both technical and judicial. Some technical problems were discussed by Peter G. Neumann in the July 2006 "Inside Risks" column. Here, […]

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Research and Advances Jun 1 2000

Information System Integration

For information systems, it is increasingly difficult to draw a line around an application system and say that you own and control it. For example, as value chains extend beyond enterprises, supplier and customer systems become part of each other’s information architectures. Furthermore, in many application areas, data is distributed over a multitude of heterogeneous, […]

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Research and Advances Jun 1 2000

The SI Challenge in Health Care

The inability to share information across systems and between care organizations is just one of the major impediments in the health care business's progress toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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Opinion Feb 1 1999

Technical Opinion: On Defining Computer Science Terminology

A general problem with computer science terminology is that some terms are often used for different concepts and that the same concepts are denoted by different terms. To a great extent, this is due to the rapid advances in computer science where new concepts need new names. We illustrate these issues by means of a […]

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