There is a wide gap between the users and the developers in terms of understanding an information system. The most important job scope of a system analyzer is to interview the users to fulfill the requirements and to produce the documentation in layman terms. Chaos theory, system dynamics, project management theory, etc. all tell the initial stage playing an important role during system development. If the users¡¦ requirements are not clearly understood, it will have a bitter consequence when the information system is online. Therefore, system analysis is the essential stage for changes and to understand the requirements of the users. Currently, approaches of system analysis are related to either database management or structured methodology. As for the acquisition of users¡¦ requirements, there are no clear steps and procedures. This has made the understanding of users¡¦ requirement more difficult. We hope that by using a tool of architecture, system analyzers can better comprehend users¡¦ requirements. Hence, we come up with the Architecture-Oriented-System-Analysis-Model (AOSAM) for analysis, design, implementation and testing of an information system. For this research, there are three portions: (1) the fundamental theory of the AOSAM, (2) the build up of the AOSAM, and (3) procedures of using the AOSAM. In this study, we find out AOSAM is able to combine structure with process during the system analysis stage. Furthermore, AOSAM also reaches three significant accomplishments: (1) system analysts grasp users¡¦ requirements firmly, (2) system designers easier to transform users¡¦ requirements to design documents, and (3) to reduce repeating System Development Life Cycle. In the future, we would like to advance the AOSAM to the area of user acceptability, integrated business information system, system design, etc.

The global economic environment nowadays becomes so competitive, all enterprises suffer a challenging and confronting adversity. Due to the knowledge economy era, all enterprises need to emphasize the internal information management and application. Therefore, the Business Intelligent (BI) software turns into the best solution for an enterprise. As each enterprise has different structure and behavior views, the BI definition is required to adapt to the enterprise environment. To resolve this problem, an enterprise must increase the business cost, and system managers are demanded to modify the programs repeatedly. Our research aims to assist the BI software by defining a model of Architecture-Oriented Business Intelligent (AOBI) which helps analyze and design the software with ease. The AOBI model is to describe the structure and behavior in one unity. Using this approach of structure and behavior in one unity, developers would devise and adjust the BI software more flexible and adaptable. This study distinguishes into three parts. The first part is to introduce the architecture theory. The second part is to explain how to build up an architecture model. The third part is to propose an AOBI model. Inside the thesis, BI structure elements, operations, and structure and behavior in one unity are elaborated. Also, using AOBI model assists system developers to construct the BI software for an enterprise. In the future, we would further our efforts on the implementation, testing, cost and performance management of the AOBI software. The BI software contains other software, for example, Key Performance Indicator, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Data Mining and On-line analysis processing, etc. We may construct the above software using the architecture model, too.

The global economic environment nowadays becomes so competitive, all enterprises suffer a challenging and confronting adversity. Due to the knowledge economy era, all enterprises need to emphasize the internal information management and application. Therefore, the Data Warehousing (DW) turns into the best solution for an enterprise. As each enterprise has different structure and behavior views, the DW definition is required to adapt to the enterprise environment. To resolve this problem, an enterprise must increase the business cost, and system managers are demanded to modify the programs repeatedly. Our research aims to assist the DW by defining a model of Architecture-Oriented Data Warehousing Framework (AODWF) which helps analyze and design the software with ease. The AODWF is to describe the structure and behavior in one unity. Using this approach of structure and behavior in one unity, developers would devise and adjust the DW more flexible and adaptable. This thesis distinguishes into three parts. The first part is to introduce the architecture theory. The second part is to explain how to build up an architecture model. The third part is to propose the AODWF. Inside the thesis, DW structure elements, operations, and structure and behavior in one unity are elaborated. Also, using AODWF assists system developers to construct the DW for an enterprise. In the future, we would further our efforts on the implementation, testing, cost and performance management of the AODWF. The DW contains other software, for example, Business Intelligent, Data Mart, Data Mining and On-line analysis processing, etc. We may construct these software using the architecture model, too. Key words¡GData Warehousing, Architecture-Oriented Data Warehousing, Structure and Behavior in One Unity, Architecture Model.

As the globalization trend going on, the Taiwan¡¦s steel import tariff has been reduced to almost nil customs duties after joining in the World Trade Organization. Taken to be a result of continuous investment in enhancing and enlarging output capabilities made by local steel manufacturers, the domestic steel markets are showing a tendency to a surplus status of supply over demand. The steel companies in Taiwan are faced with much stricter economic surrounding. Therefore, it is first priority that any enterprise must do well on internal improvement in order to keep its competitiveness. This research aims to setup Architecture-Oriented Production Equipment Management Model (AOPEMM). The results will be provided to the coated/galvanized plate steel products as reference of the Production Equipment Management. In this research, we first set up the roadmap of Architecture-Oriented Production Equipment Management Model. In the roadmap of AOPEMM, structure element diagrams, structure element service diagrams, structure behavior coalescence diagrams, and sequence diagrams are constructed accordingly. Through repeating of this construction, we then achieve an optimization of the AOPEMM. We compare AOPEMM with Non-Architecture-Oriented Production Equipment Management Model (NAOPEMM) using six measurement indicators, such as organization, personnel, task, technology, communication interface and integration of the resources. Strength of AOPEMM and Weakness of NAOPEMM are validated to support the argument of this research.

Summary In an era of knowledge economy, it is necessary to promote the efficiency of business. However, when a corporation decides to use an enterprise resource planning (abbreviated as ERP) system, it becomes a gigantic problem to choose either developing the system by themselves or buying a suit ERP software. At present, the maturity of ERP software on the market is able to fulfill the general demand of business. But enterprises in general need to face the situation that the procedure revises when having special demands. The suit ERP software on the market, will divide the system into several main module at present, usually can include financial management, stock control, sale management, procurement management, production management, human resource management. The suit ERP software on the current market, the major problem stems from three causes. They are process-oriented, structured method, and object-oriented. We call them non architecture oriented finance management ERP model (NAOFMERPM) This research develops an architecture oriented finance management ERP model (AOFMERPM) which solves the problems generated by NAOFMERPM. To validate this expression, we use the information system success model (abbreviated as IS Success Model) three factors, information quality, system quality, service quality to prove AOFMERPM is better than NAOFMERPM .

The gasoline prices have risen over $130 USD per barrel since the first time oil crisis occurred in 1973. The shortages of the natural resources cause not only the prices of raw material getting higher but also hard to get. The cost of the production and marketing increased tremendously. At the present time all enterprises focus on how to get the raw material they need on producing. According to the data currently issued by U.S. Census Bureau, among the manufacturing industries, the proportion of the purchase amounts of raw material, parts, and equipments to the total cost was over 50%. The processes of the procurement are complicated and long procedures. To simplify the procurement process and save the purchasing costs become the major topics that an enterprise has to face. Unfortunately, we are lacking a set of integral model for procurement management at present. The model of system architecture is simple and concise. It describes and represents all the viewpoints simultaneously. We use to construct the mold of architecture-oriented procurement management for the references of the enterprises procurement management. This research adopting the logic approach, based on system architecture, complements with Architecture Description Language as a tool to derive the Architecture-Oriented Procurement Management Model (AOPMM). AOPMM is an integrated model of the service and interaction of all structure elements, using Six Golden Rule to express explicitly the inner knowledge. And it can be used as graphic job specifications. To face the speedily changing environment of management, AOPMM helps managers more flexible and quick to adjust the relationship inwards and outwards, to sufficiently control the resources and exchange the ideas as to make the functions of procurement management easily to appear. The results of this research can be used as the references for the enterprises procurement model in the future, to improve the efficiency of the procurement management and decision making, reduce purchasing costs, and create the higher strategic values.

Steel structure enterprises, belonging to domestic-oriented industry, are capital intensive and skill intensive as well. The ability of huge fund deployment and excellent project management is the key for such kind of enterprises to survive in the competitive environment due to the low entry barrier and little profit margin. The cost of the material accounts for the most, usually the greatest proportion of the total contract, in an entire steel structure project. Therefore, the profit in general depends heavily on the quality of material management. In this thesis, we propose Architecture Oriented Steel Structure Material Scheduling Model (AOSSMSM), to capture the current material inventory, reduce the remaining stock, improve the circulation and substitutability, and increase the profit. AOSSMSM constructs system architecture which includes enterprise architecture and software architecture, therefore highlights material¡¦s service and interaction among culture value chain in enterprise and integrates with information application system. By duplication and expansion characteristics of system architecture, AOSSMSM can be replicated effortlessly by other steel structure companies, or bridged to other models to create a new operational formation.

With introduction of information technology, the role of human resources management has transformed from traditional administrative affairs to strategic partners. Each enterprise, whether small or large, can not be divorced from the management of human resources. Finding proper talents; retaining and training employees for enterprises to maintain a strong vitality; providing effective supports to human resources etc. are important issues that human resources management currently needs to face. An ideal human resources management system must not only meet the needs of enterprises, but also be adaptable to the environment¡¦s change. Today, most human resources management systems on the market are in the form of packages and process-oriented; therefore, they have difficulties to cope with the frequently changed environment. As the saying goes, "Know both your opponent and yourself ever victorious", architecture-oriented construction of a system becomes the beacon to many enterprises so that they have a better grasp of the effective integration of resources, in order to create the maximum corporate value. Architecture-oriented human resource management model, abbreviated as AOHRMM, includes enterprise architecture and software architecture, which not only describes enterprise behaviors in terms of interactions among enterprise structures, but also fully applies information technology and system integration. From analysis to design, through macro to micro of architecture-oriented characteristics, AOHRMM is able to complete the construction of enterprise systems with consistency and standardization. Also with communication capabilities of architecture framework, AOHRMM makes all processes transparent, so that enterprise strategies, personnel, and any system all have a consistent direction and goal. In addition to combining resources to achieve the mission, AOHRMM is vigorous with rapid response and flexibility to adjust in consistently changing environment.

Hot-rolled steel products occupy a key position, between upstream and downstream, in the steel industry chain. In this country, revenue of hot-rolled strip steel products maintains the greatest proportion among all steel products. Continuous pursuit of knowledge progress and growth plays a significant support to sustainable enterprises and gives them a vigorous operational strength in the face of international competition. During the hot strip steel manufacturing process, as the second-level standard of the computer integrated manufacturing system in a steel plant describes, in addition to those needed information related with real-time electronic control equipment dealt by process control computers, how does hot strip mill statistical process computer, abbreviated HSMSPC, utilize statistical analysis and information processing also challenges the future competitiveness. This research engages in a genuine hot strip mill statistical process computer system developed by a well-known steel corporation located in Taiwan, adopting structure behavior coalescence, abbreviated as SBC, six golden rules to build up the architecture-oriented hot strip mill statistical process computer model, abbreviated as AOHSMSPCM. AOHSMSPCM shall construct a hot strip mill statistical process computer system in an architecture-oriented way so that it is able to fully express the operational act and information extraction which cover system structures and system behaviors as well; subsequently, the hot strip mill statistical process computer system will produce higher added value in the face of the production line variability, replicate update, knowledge management, and so on. AOHSMSPCM begins with the analysis layer of system architecture. In this research, system structures and system behaviors are well described in the HSMSPC analysis layer. Besides this, easy to duplicate and extension of scalability are thoroughly elaborated in this research. Finally, this research comes up with "Strengthening the variability control of a hot strip mill", "Preserving assets of corporate knowledge" and "Upgrading process technologies of production lines" as three benefits that AOHSMSPCM contributes to the enterprise.

Software development of R.O.C. military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement used to adopt data flow approach. Data flow approach not only flunks to guide users to describe their real need but also fails to provide a coalescence picture that integrates the operating personnel, materials data sources and logistic system together with completeness and consistency. Using architecture-oriented approach, structure elements, services, connections, and interaction behaviors of R.O.C. military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement are adequately documented. With this transparent document, developers and users shall obtain full integrality and consistency of technical support and requirement provision during the system development. This research embraces the structure behavior coalescence, abbreviated as SBC, approach to construct the architecture-oriented analysis-model of military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement, abbreviated as AOAMMMPICSIR. AOAMMMPICSIR shall be referred as an R.O.C. military architecture-oriented analysis tool and it shall help outsource the software development of military maintenance parts inventory control system¡¦s integrated requirement with success and quality.