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In today’s enterprises, many old information systems (IS) are in use. Maintenance costs can easily account for the major portions of IS budgets. Further problems arise from lack of data integration and lack of functional integration, leading to redundancies and inconsistencies. This state of affairs can be improved by reengineering old IS and gradually integrating them into modern distributed environments. During this long-term process, many risks have to be dealt with. To treat risk explicitly, Boehm’s spiral model can be employed but generally it requires experienced professionals. In this paper, we propose a knowledge-based approach to risk management. Knowledge models based on KADS methodology are presented in order to facilitate application of the spiral model.
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Kurbel, K., Jung, R., Pietsch, W. (1996). Modeling Knowledge about Long-term IS Integration and Integration-oriented Reengineering with KADS. In: König, W., Kurbel, K., Mertens, P., Pressmar, D. (eds) Distributed Information Systems in Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80216-4_16
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