A model‐driven development method for Management Information Systems

Abstract

Traditionally, Management Information Systems (MIS) have been developed without using formal methods. By informal methods, MIS are developed over their lifecycle without having any models. This causes many problems, such as lack of reliability of the system design specifications. In order to overcome these problems, a model theory approach has been proposed. The approach is based on the idea that a system can be modeled by automata and set theory. However, it is very difficult to generate automata of the system to be developed right from the start. On the other hand, there is a model-driven development method that can flexibly adapt to changes of business logics or implementing technologies. In model-driven development, a system is modeled using a modeling language such as UML. This paper proposes a new development method for management information systems, applying the model-driven development method to a component of the model theory approach. Experiments have shown that the reduction in the amount of efforts is more than 30%. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 96(2): 16-24, 2013; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). Key words: model-driven development; model theory approach; UML; management information system. Model Theory ApproachThis section explains the model theory approach.

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“…If the system being built on the platform with no good model, the system will lack of systematic characteristics no matter what kind of object-based resource management mechanism the system are constructed on. By referring to the model-driven MIS (Management Information System) systems research of article [8], I realized that it's very important to firstly design the system model for any management information platforms, including the learning resource management to be presented in our paper. Today, MIS has been widely used in various fields, Tuula [9] mentioned one kind of MIS in the medical management of successful examples, and we can learn from it and apply to the field of teaching resource management.…”