The Open Information Systems Journal

2008, 2 : 17-23
Published online 2008 June 17. DOI: 10.2174/1874133900802010017
Publisher ID: TOISJ-2-17

An Information System for Quality Control in Wineries

M. Urbano Cuadrado , I. Luque Ruiz and M.A. Gómez-Nieto
University of Cordoba, Department of Computing and Numerical Analysis, Campus de Rabanales, Albert Einstein Building, E-14071 Cordoba, Spain.

ABSTRACT

A system for the overall management of the information related to analytical processes and quality control in wineries is presented. It enables the integration of semi-automated and automated analytical processes. It has been developed in Java using the database management system Oracle 9i and can be executed both as a stand-alone program and through a standard Internet browser. It has been developed under the evolutionary incremental paradigm in order to take into account users’ requirements and using UML object oriented technology to represent the complexity of the processes and the large amount of analytical information generated in wine production. Thus, a decision support system, named JWisWine, was built for monitoring wine production.