This book reports on an ESPRIT project which has produced the first prototype of a comprehensive information systems environment, including languages, methods and tools, for managing the whole process of information systems development and maintenance.
In the early 1980s, a trend towards formal undeIStanding and knowledge-based assistance for the development and maintenance of database-intensive information systems became apparent. The group of John Mylopoulos at the UniveISity of Toronto and their European collaboratoIS moved...