
| Amit Mitra is Managing Consultant at Headstrong LLC, in addition to President and Principal Consultant at Sprybiz LLC. Dr Amar Gupta is Professor of Entrepreneurship and MIS; Thomas R. Brown Chair in Management and Technology; and Senior Director for Research and Business Development for the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is also a Visiting Professor at MIT. |
| List ofboxes List offigures List of tables ForewcIrd Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 What iS this book about and who should read it? 2 What will the information be used for? 3 Technology’S broken promise 4 Component reuse—the genesis 5 Scope ofthis book 6 Foundation of knowledge reuse:three pillars 7 HOW this book iS organized 1 On the nature of reality and the nature of business 1 The nature of knowledge 2 Modeling the real world 3 Metaworld of information 4 Basic metaobiect inventory 5 Metaobjects and the natural repository of knowledge 6 The architecture of knowledge and the scope of the metamodel in this book 2 The object atthe root ofit all 1 Object class versus obiect instance 2 The state of an obiect 3 Inheriting behavior—subtypes,supertypes,and partitioning of objects 4 The problem of perspective 5 Repositories of meaning 3 The nature of attributes 1 The structure of attributes and states 2 Attribute constraints 3 Naming and expressing attributes 4 Domains and their expression 1 The meaning and architecture of format 2 The meaning of unites of measure 3 Domains of meaning and the metamodel of object 4 Storing abst meaning Appendix:Key shared components of knowledge Bibliography Index |
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