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Towards P Systems Based Approach for Evolutionary Enterprise Application

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Development of enterprise applications is expensive, takes time and requires knowledge, tools and techniques. Contemporary enterprise applications must be dependable as well as customizable in the evolutionary way according to changes in the enterprise business processes. The wider goal of our research is to develop techniques for development of enterprise applications that software end users, in collaboration with software developers, are able to change safely and easily according to changing requirements. In accordance to the software engineering triptych: to write software, the requirements must be prescribed; to prescribe the requirements, the domain must be understood; to understand the domain, we must study one. We present and exemplify P systems based enterprise domain model. We treat an enterprise as a membrane-computing structure and utilize P system notions, notations and formalisms in modelling of enterprises and enterprise business processes. In our understanding this P systems based enterprise model can provide a practically usable framework for development of evolutionary enterprise applications.

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This work is supported by Estonian Ministry of Education and research (SF0140013s10); by Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia); by University of Leeds (United Kingdom); by Cancer Research UK.

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  1. Clinical and Biomedical Proteomics Group, University of Leeds, Beckett St, Leeds, LS9 7TF, UK

    Gunnar Piho

  2. Department of Informatics, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia St. 15A, Tallinn, 12618, Estonia

    Gunnar Piho, Jaak Tepandi & Viljam Puusep

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  1. Dept of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

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    Gustavo Aragón

  3. Monash University, Caaulfield East, Victoria, Australia

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Piho, G., Tepandi, J., Puusep, V. (2014). Towards P Systems Based Approach for Evolutionary Enterprise Application. In: José Escalona, M., Aragón, G., Linger, H., Lang, M., Barry, C., Schneider, C. (eds) Information System Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07215-9_4

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