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Automated Methodologies for the Design of Flow Diagrams for Development and Maintenance Activities

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E-business Technology and Strategy (CETS 2010)

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The Software Requirements Specification (SRS) of the organization is a text document prepared by strategic management incorporating the requirements of the organization. These requirements of ongoing business/ project development process involve the software tools, the hardware devices, the manual procedures, the application programs and the communication commands. These components are appropriately ordered for achieving the mission of the concerned process both in the project development and the ongoing business processes, in different flow diagrams viz. activity chart, workflow diagram, activity diagram, component diagram and deployment diagram. This paper proposes two generic, automatic methodologies for the design of various flow diagrams of (i) project development activities, (ii) ongoing business process. The methodologies also resolve the ensuing deadlocks in the flow diagrams and determine the critical paths for the activity chart. Though both methodologies are independent, each complements other in authenticating its correctness and completeness.

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 560 004, Karnataka, India

    Handigund Shivanand M. & Bhat Shweta

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  1. Queen’s University, 99 University Avenue, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Marzia Zaman

  2. Royal Military College of Canada, 13 General Crerar Cres, K7K 7B4, Kingston, ON, Canada

    Yawei Liang

  3. Université du Québec en Outaouais, 283 boul. Alexandre-Taché, C.P. 1250, J8X 3X7, Gatineau, Québec, Canada

    Sohail M Siddiqui

  4. CeBA Canada, 1107-2720 Queensview Drive, K2B 1A5, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Tim Wang

  5. Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, K1S 5B6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Vincent Liu

  6. University of Toronto, 172 St. George Street, M5R 0A3, Toronto, Canada

    Ceecee Lu

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Shivanand M., H., Shweta, B. (2010). Automated Methodologies for the Design of Flow Diagrams for Development and Maintenance Activities. In: Zaman, M., Liang, Y., Siddiqui, S.M., Wang, T., Liu, V., Lu, C. (eds) E-business Technology and Strategy. CETS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16397-5_8

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