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This paper surveys some innovative features of INCOME/STAR, an experimental environment for cooperative development of information systems.
First an extension of high-level Petri nets is described: NR/T-nets allow modeling of concurrent processes and related complex structured objects in distributed business applications. Further new concepts have been developed for entity and relationship clustering to support a stepwise top-down approach for entity/relationship based object modeling. Distributed multi-user simulation and prototyping are proposed for the evaluation and analysis of NR/T-nets and the involved object schemata.
Then, ProMISE — an evolutionary process model for information system development — is surveyed. A role-based groupware component is part of the INCOME/STAR architecture to support communication, organization and social interaction in development projects.
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Oberweis, A., Stucky, W., Zimmermann, G. (1996). INCOME/STAR: Facing the Challenges for Cooperative Information System Development Environments. In: König, W., Kurbel, K., Mertens, P., Pressmar, D. (eds) Distributed Information Systems in Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80216-4_2
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