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Prof. Estrela Ferreira Cruz
Higher School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal

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Journal article
Published: 03 June 2021 in Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
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Nowadays it is important to know the origins of most products, not only for public health reasons, with regard to food products, but also because of the increasing people's awareness of environmental and social aspects, posing new challenges in the quality of products and their environmental impact. Food traceability information must be collected throughout the supply chain, and be registered on a platform external to all operators in that chain. This information must be available, not only to value chain operators and public health authorities, but also to end customers. One of the best ways to provide customers with this traceability information, in the places where they need to make a decision about which products to buy, is to add kiosks at the points of sale for those products. This article describes the design and architecture of a traceability platform for fish and fishery products, within the scope of the ValorMar R&D project, as well as the applications that supply the platform with traceability information, and a kiosk application for points of sale and a mobile app for final consumers, which will allow them to consult the traceability of fish and fishery products' lots.

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José Oliveira; José Evaristo Lima; Dimitri da Silva; Volodymyr Kuprych; Pedro Miguel Faria; Cláudio Teixeira; Estrela Ferreira Cruz; António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. Traceability system for quality monitoring in the fishery and aquaculture value chain. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 2021, 5, 100169 .

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José Oliveira, José Evaristo Lima, Dimitri da Silva, Volodymyr Kuprych, Pedro Miguel Faria, Cláudio Teixeira, Estrela Ferreira Cruz, António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. Traceability system for quality monitoring in the fishery and aquaculture value chain. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. 2021; 5 ():100169.

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José Oliveira; José Evaristo Lima; Dimitri da Silva; Volodymyr Kuprych; Pedro Miguel Faria; Cláudio Teixeira; Estrela Ferreira Cruz; António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. 2021. "Traceability system for quality monitoring in the fishery and aquaculture value chain." Journal of Agriculture and Food Research 5, no. : 100169.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2020 in 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz. Design Science Research for IS/IT Projects: Focus on Digital Transformation. 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) 2020, 1 .

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz. Design Science Research for IS/IT Projects: Focus on Digital Transformation. 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). 2020; ():1.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz. 2020. "Design Science Research for IS/IT Projects: Focus on Digital Transformation." 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2020 in 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
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Rui Gomes; Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz; Estrela Ferreira Cruz. EA in the Digital Transformation of Higher Education Institutions. 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) 2020, 1 .

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Rui Gomes, Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz, Estrela Ferreira Cruz. EA in the Digital Transformation of Higher Education Institutions. 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). 2020; ():1.

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Rui Gomes; Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz; Estrela Ferreira Cruz. 2020. "EA in the Digital Transformation of Higher Education Institutions." 2020 15th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2019 in 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
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Antonio M. Rosado Da Cruz; Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Pedro Moreira; Rui Carreira; Joao Gomes; Jose Oliveira; Rui Gomes. On the Design of a Platform for Traceability in the Fishery and Aquaculture Value Chain. 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) 2019, 1 .

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Antonio M. Rosado Da Cruz, Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Pedro Moreira, Rui Carreira, Joao Gomes, Jose Oliveira, Rui Gomes. On the Design of a Platform for Traceability in the Fishery and Aquaculture Value Chain. 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). 2019; ():1.

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Antonio M. Rosado Da Cruz; Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Pedro Moreira; Rui Carreira; Joao Gomes; Jose Oliveira; Rui Gomes. 2019. "On the Design of a Platform for Traceability in the Fishery and Aquaculture Value Chain." 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2019 in 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz; Rui Gomes. Analysis of a Traceability and Quality Monitoring Platform for the Fishery and Aquaculture Value Chain. 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) 2019, 1 .

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz, Rui Gomes. Analysis of a Traceability and Quality Monitoring Platform for the Fishery and Aquaculture Value Chain. 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). 2019; ():1.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Antonio Miguel Rosado Da Cruz; Rui Gomes. 2019. "Analysis of a Traceability and Quality Monitoring Platform for the Fishery and Aquaculture Value Chain." 2019 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI) , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2019 in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. A Food Value Chain Integrated Business Process and Domain Models for Product Traceability and Quality Monitoring: Pattern Models for Food Traceability Platforms. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2019, 285 -294.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. A Food Value Chain Integrated Business Process and Domain Models for Product Traceability and Quality Monitoring: Pattern Models for Food Traceability Platforms. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 2019; ():285-294.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. 2019. "A Food Value Chain Integrated Business Process and Domain Models for Product Traceability and Quality Monitoring: Pattern Models for Food Traceability Platforms." Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , no. : 285-294.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2019 in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
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Rui Lima; Estrela Cruz. Extraction and Multidimensional Analysis of Data from Unstructured Data Sources: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2019, 190 -199.

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Rui Lima, Estrela Cruz. Extraction and Multidimensional Analysis of Data from Unstructured Data Sources: A Case Study. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 2019; ():190-199.

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Rui Lima; Estrela Cruz. 2019. "Extraction and Multidimensional Analysis of Data from Unstructured Data Sources: A Case Study." Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , no. : 190-199.

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Published: 01 January 2019 in Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering
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The constant change and rising complexity of organizations, mainly due to the transforming nature of their business processes, has driven the increase of interest in business process management by organizations. It is recognized that knowing business processes can help to ensure that the software under development will meet the business needs. Some of software development processes (like unified process) already refer to business process modeling as a first effort in the software development process. A business process model usually is created under the supervision, clarification, approval, and validation of the business stakeholders. Thus, a business process model is a proper representation of the reality (as is or to be), having lots of useful information that can be used in the development of the software system that will support the business. The chapter uses the information existing in business process models to derive software models specially focused in generating a data model.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. On the Rim Between Business Processes and Software Systems. Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering 2019, 170 -196.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo J. Machado, Maribel Yasmina Santos. On the Rim Between Business Processes and Software Systems. Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering. 2019; ():170-196.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. 2019. "On the Rim Between Business Processes and Software Systems." Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering , no. : 170-196.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2018 in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. Deriving Integrated Software Design Models from BPMN Business Process Models. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies 2018, 1 .

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. Deriving Integrated Software Design Models from BPMN Business Process Models. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies. 2018; ():1.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; António Miguel Rosado da Cruz. 2018. "Deriving Integrated Software Design Models from BPMN Business Process Models." Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Technologies , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2016 in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development
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Estrela F. Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. Deriving Software Design Models from a Set of Business Processes. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development 2016, 489 -496.

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Estrela F. Cruz, Ricardo J. Machado, Maribel Y. Santos. Deriving Software Design Models from a Set of Business Processes. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. 2016; ():489-496.

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Estrela F. Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. 2016. "Deriving Software Design Models from a Set of Business Processes." Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development , no. : 489-496.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2015 in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. Bridging the Gap between a Set of Interrelated Business Process Models and Software Models. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2015, 338 -345.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo J. Machado, Maribel Yasmina Santos. Bridging the Gap between a Set of Interrelated Business Process Models and Software Models. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 2015; ():338-345.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. 2015. "Bridging the Gap between a Set of Interrelated Business Process Models and Software Models." Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , no. : 338-345.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2015 in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo-J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. Deriving a Data Model from a Set of Interrelated Business Process Models. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2015, 49 -59.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo-J. Machado, Maribel Yasmina Santos. Deriving a Data Model from a Set of Interrelated Business Process Models. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 2015; ():49-59.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo-J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. 2015. "Deriving a Data Model from a Set of Interrelated Business Process Models." Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , no. : 49-59.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2014 in 2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
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Business process modelling and management approaches are increasingly used and disclosed between organizations as a means to improve their products or services quality and to improve their productivity. If on one hand Business Processes Management and Modelling is becoming increasingly important to organizations, on the other hand, software development teams still have serious difficulties in defining the requirements for the software that supports the business processes which primarily have been based on lists of needs felt by users. As a result, we have software models and applications that are not aligned with business processes. Basing requirements elicitation in the Business Process Modelling would ensure the alignment between Business Processes and software models and applications. The main objective of this research is helping to close the gap between the business processes and the software that supports the business, deriving early software models from business process models1.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. Derivation of Data-Driven Software Models from Business Process Representations. 2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology 2014, 276 -281.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo J. Machado, Maribel Y. Santos. Derivation of Data-Driven Software Models from Business Process Representations. 2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology. 2014; ():276-281.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. 2014. "Derivation of Data-Driven Software Models from Business Process Representations." 2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology , no. : 276-281.

Conference paper
Published: 01 June 2014 in 2014 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications
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Requirements elicitation is a complex and usually longstanding but crucial activity to the software development. UML use case models are one of the most popular techniques to describe the functional requirements of a system. Use cases can be written with a high-abstraction level or with a low-abstraction level. In fact, when one needs to see the system as a whole, the high-abstraction level use cases are useful. But when the system's details need to be known, low-abstraction level use cases are a lot more useful. This paper describes an iterative and incremental approach to support the construction of UML use case diagrams as a first documentation effort of the requirements elicitation activities. The approach adopts a refinement mechanism to detail use cases, in a controlled way, as a mean to obtain a functional requirements model of the system. This allows relating an abstract use case with the corresponding more concrete use cases.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo-J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. On the Decomposition of Use Cases for the Refinement of Software Requirements. 2014 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications 2014, 237 -240.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo-J. Machado, Maribel Y. Santos. On the Decomposition of Use Cases for the Refinement of Software Requirements. 2014 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications. 2014; ():237-240.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo-J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. 2014. "On the Decomposition of Use Cases for the Refinement of Software Requirements." 2014 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications , no. : 237-240.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2014 in Business Information Systems
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One of the most difficult, and crucial, activities in software development is the identification of system functional requirements. A popular way to capture and describe those requirements is through UML use case models. A business process model identifies the activities, resources and data involved in the creation of a product or service, having lots of useful information for developing a supporting software system. During system analysis, most of this information must be incorporated into use case descriptions. This paper proposes an approach to support the construction of use case models based on business process models. The proposed approach obtains a complete use case model, including the identification of actors, use cases and the corresponding descriptions, which are created from a set of predefined natural language sentences mapped from BPMN model elements.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. From Business Process Models to Use Case Models: A Systematic Approach. Business Information Systems 2014, 174, 167 -181.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo J. Machado, Maribel Yasmina Santos. From Business Process Models to Use Case Models: A Systematic Approach. Business Information Systems. 2014; 174 ():167-181.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Yasmina Santos. 2014. "From Business Process Models to Use Case Models: A Systematic Approach." Business Information Systems 174, no. : 167-181.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2012 in 2012 Eighth International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology
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Business process modeling and management approaches are increasingly used and disclosed between organizations as a means of optimizing and streamlining the business activities. Among the various existing modeling languages, we stress the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), currently in version 2.0. BPMN is a widespread OMG standard that is actually used either in academia and in organizations. BPMN enables business process modeling, but does not facilitate the modeling of the information infrastructure involved in the process. However, interest in the data and its preservation has increased in BPMN's most recent version. The aim of this paper is to study BPMN 2.0, particularly on the usage and persistence of data, and present an approach for obtaining an early data model from the business process modeling, which may then be used as a starting data model in the software development process.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. From Business Process Modeling to Data Model: A Systematic Approach. 2012 Eighth International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology 2012, 205 -210.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz, Ricardo J. Machado, Maribel Y. Santos. From Business Process Modeling to Data Model: A Systematic Approach. 2012 Eighth International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology. 2012; ():205-210.

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Estrela Ferreira Cruz; Ricardo J. Machado; Maribel Y. Santos. 2012. "From Business Process Modeling to Data Model: A Systematic Approach." 2012 Eighth International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology , no. : 205-210.