Papers and Presentations

This page contains a list of selected white papers and conference presentations prepared by the RivCom team.

The views and information expressed in these documents represent those of the authors, who are solely responsible for their content.

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Business Process Improvement - Overview and Issues

• What is Business Process Design and Why Should I Care?
  by Jay Cousins and Tony Stewart, August 2002
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• Ensuring Success in Business Process Analysis and Design
  by Tony Stewart, September 2002
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Business Process Improvement - Case Studies

• Supporting Business Process Standardisation in a Global Organisation:
  A Case Study of Shell's Downstream Business Activity Model
  by Daniel Rivers-Moore and Tony Stewart, September 2002
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• Business Process Control at Shell International Petroleum
  presented by Tony Stewart at Lifecycle MSC 2002, London, September 2002
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XML in the News

• Introduction and overview of XML in the News
  presented by Tony Stewart at XML in the News, XML UK, October 2003
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• AdsML 1.0 Technical Overview
  presented by Tony Stewart at IfraExpo, Germany, October 2003
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• The AdsML Advertising Standards Matrix Project:
  Helping to bring clarity to a confusing situation
  presented by Tony Stewart, published in Newspaper Techniques, September 2003
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XML and Related Standards

• XTM and Shell Business Process Models
  presented by Anthony Scott at Real World Topic Maps, XML UK, October 2003
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• Introduction to XML
  presented by Adrian Rivers at Online Help Conference - Europe 2001, Copenhagen, June 2001
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• The Impact of XML on Corporate Information Management and Delivery
  presented by Daniel Rivers-Moore at the Corporate Intranets and Portals Conference, UK, January 2001
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• XML & Industrial Data
  presented by Tony Stewart at UK SGML Users Group, UK, February 1999 and W3C conference - The World Wide Web: Recent Developments, the Future and European Industrial Experience, UK, December 1998
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Using XML to Create Interactive Documents

• The Document as Application: Issues and Implications
  presented by Tony Stewart at XML Europe 99, Granada, Spain, April 1999
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• XML on the Desktop: Application for Shell's Competence Gap Analysis Tool
  presented by Tony Stewart at XML 98, Chicago, IL, November 1998
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Using XML in Data and Process Modelling

• XML and EXPRESS as Schema-Definition Languages
  presented by Daniel Rivers-Moore at Meta Structures 98 Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 1999
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• XML Application Building Blocks (tutorial)
  presented by Daniel Rivers-Moore and Antony Scott at OOP 2001 Conference, Munich, January 2001 and XML One 2000, UK, October 2000
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The XML/EDI Research Project

• An XML/EDI Transport Messaging Prototype
  presented by Antony Scott at OOP 2001 Conference, Munich, June 2001, and at XML One 2000, UK, October 2000, and XML Europe 2000, France, 2000
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• Building a Client-side Interactive XML Application
  presented by Tony Stewart at XML '99, USA, December 1999
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• Business Applications Made Easy
  presented by Daniel Rivers-Moore at XML One 2001, London, March 2001
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