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Design of Industrial Information Systems.
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IIE Transactions
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Billo, Richard E.
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Design of Industrial Information Systems
Thomas O. Boucher and Ali Yalcin
Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2006, 432 pages, ISBN 978-0-12-370492-4, $79.95
Most modern texts on information systems tend to treat the design of industrial information systems in one of two ways. The first type of book provides a superficial treatment of the subject. Such books provide elementary descriptions of such tasks as data modeling, providing simplified examples of entity relationship diagrams and simple query language examples. They often do not incorporate the complexities of the information system design process, or the very real complexities often encountered in modeling ...