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{"title":"Reuse of a repository of conceptual schemas in a large scale project","authors":"C. Batini, Riccardo Grosso","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH010","url":null,"abstract":"Large amounts of data are managed by organizations, available to be viewed and analysed from multiple perspectives, which becomes a fundamental resource to the effectiveness of the organizations. An organization can achieve full benefit from the available information by managing its data resource, through the planning of its exploitation and its maintenance. The concept of data repository fulfils these requirements, due to the fact that it contains the description of all types of data produced, managed, maintained and exchanged in an organization. This paper describes an experience of the use of an existing repository of conceptual schema, representing a wide amount of entities of interest for Central Public administration, in order to produce the corresponding repository of the administrations located in a region. Several heuristics are described and experiments are reported. 1 Structure of Italian Public Administration and previous experiences of conceptual schema Repositories The goal of this paper is to describe an experience with a repository of conceptual schemas, related to Central Italian public administration, in order to build a first version of the corresponding repository of conceptual schemas of the local public administration located in one of the 21 regions of Italy. Due to limited available resources, several approximate techniques have been applied, that allow fast prototyping of the local repository, to be refined by domain expert, resulting in a resource consumption one order of magnitude lower than that with a traditional process. The Italian Government’s policy, in the past few years, similarly to many other governments in the world, has been to improve the quality of services to the citizen, by gradually improving services provided by information systems and databases of its agencies. However, in the past the lack of co-operation among the departments led to the establishment of heterogeneous and isolated systems. As a result, two main problems have arisen: duplicated and inconsistent information; and difficult data access. Moreover, the Government efficiency depends on the sharing of information between administrations, due to the fact that many of them are usually involved in the same procedures, while using different, overlapped, heterogeneous databases. Therefore, in the long term, a crucial aspect for the overall project is to design a cooperation architecture that allows both central and local administration to share information in such a way as to be able to provide services to citizens and businesses on the basis of the “one stop shop” paradigm. A crucial aspect of such cooperation architecture is the data architecture: data have to be interchanged in an interoperable format, all the administration assign the same meaning to the same data, achieving database integration in the long term; this will enable the spread of information within government branches, a more easily accessible working environment, an increased q","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120807252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing Business Processing Modeling Languages Using a Generic Quality Framework","authors":"Anna Gunhild Nysetvold, J. Krogstie","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH005","url":null,"abstract":"We describe in this paper an insurance company that has recently wanted to standardize on business process modeling language. To perform the evaluation, a generic framework for assessing the quality of models and modeling languages was specialized to the needs of the company. Three different modeling languages were evaluated according to the specialized criteria. The work illustrates the practical utility of the overall framework, where language quality features are looked upon as means to enable the creation of models of high quality. It also illustrates the need for specializing this kind of general framework based on the requirements of the specific organization.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128811405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Objectification","authors":"T. Halpin","doi":"10.1007/978-981-287-104-6_100182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-104-6_100182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"327 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116543793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Analytical Evaluation of BPMN Using a Semiotic Quality Framework","authors":"T. Wahl, G. Sindre","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH006","url":null,"abstract":"Evaluation of modelling languages is important both to be able to select the most suitable languages according to the needs, and to improve existing languages. In this paper Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is presented and analytically evaluated according to the Semiotic Quality Framework. BPMN is a functionally oriented language well suited for modeling within the domain of business processes, but probably also general processes not only within the business domain. The evaluation indicates that BPMN is easily learned for simple use, and Business Process Diagrams (BPDs) are relatively easy to understand. Tools may fairly easily map BPDs into the BPEL4WS format, but executable systems then require creation of Web Services representing the Activities in BPDs. An evaluation according to the BWW ontology is useful for finding ontological discrepancies, and the semiotic framework is useful for evaluating quality on a relatively general level. These methods thus complement each other.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125916725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ontological Analysis of KAOS Using Separation of Reference","authors":"Raimundas Matulevičius, P. Heymans, A. Opdahl","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59904-289-3.CH002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-289-3.CH002","url":null,"abstract":"Goal modelling is emerging as a central requirements engineering (RE) technique. Unfortunately, current goal-oriented languages are not interoperable with one another or with modelling languages that address other modelling perspectives. This is a problem because the emerging generation of modeldriven information systems are likely to depend on coordinated use of several modelling languages to represent different perspectives on the enterprise and its proposed information system. The paper applies a structured approach to describe a well-known goal-oriented language, KAOS, by mapping it onto a philosophically grounded ontology. The structured approach facilitates language interoperability because, when other languages are described using the same approach, they become mapped onto the same ontology. The approach thereby provides an intermediate language for comparison, consistency checking, update reflection, view synchronisation and, eventually, model-to-model translation both between goal-oriented languages and between different languages.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127685045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A template-based analysis of GRL","authors":"Gautier Dallons, P. Heymans, I. Pollet","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH008","url":null,"abstract":"The goal-oriented paradigm is widely popular in Requirements Engineering. However, the central notion of goal remains one of the most controversial in the field. A possible cause might be that research has devoted too little attention to studying the ontological foundations of goal-oriented languages. In this paper, we have studied the case of GRL, the goal-oriented requirements language being standardized by the ITU. Our analysis followed the template-based approach proposed by Opdahl and Henderson-Sellers. After defining a metamodel for GRL, we have applied the template to each of its constructs to extract and formalize detailed syntactic and semantic information. The semantic part of the template focuses on establishing a mapping between a construct and its meaning, defined in term of the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontology. Evaluations of both GRL and the template are provided as well as suggestions to improve them.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122706668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the use of Object-Role Modelling to Model Active Domains","authors":"P. Bommel, S. Hoppenbrouwers, H. Proper, T. V. D. Weide","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59904-927-4.CH005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-927-4.CH005","url":null,"abstract":"Conceptual modelling methods such as Object-Role Modelling (ORM) have traditionally been developed with the aim of providing conceptual models of database structures. More recently, however, such modelling languages have shown their use for modelling (the ontology) of domains in general. In these latter cases, the modelling effort results in a (formally based) conceptual reasoning systems using a domain calculus on top of a domain grammar. As the title suggests, this paper is primarily concerned with the application of ORM ‘rigour’ to the modelling of active domains. In doing so, we will position the logbook paradigm as a history-oriented extension of the traditional natural language approach of ORM, and define an accompanying domain calculus (the Object-Role Calculus) which is suitable to deal with active domains. Finally, we will show how specific views (with dedicated notations), which zoom in on different aspects (such as flow of activities and actor involvement) of active domains, can easily be derived.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115869425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Rigorous Framework for Model-Driven Development","authors":"L. Favre","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.CH001","url":null,"abstract":"The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an initiative of the Object Management Group (OMG) to model-centric software development. MDA distinguishes different kinds of models: Platform Independent Models (PIM), Platform Specific Models (PSM) and code models. Metamodeling plays a key role in MDA. A combination of formal specification techniques and metamodeling can help us to address Model-Driven Developments (MDD). In this paper we describe a MDA framework that comprises the NEREUS metamodeling notation, a system of transformation rules to bridge the gap between UML/OCL and NEREUS and, the definition of MDA-based components and model/metamodeling transformations. NEREUS can be viewed as an intermediate notation open to many other formal languages. In particular, we show how to integrate NEREUS with algebraic languages such as CASL.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121158772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adopting Open Source development tools in a commercial production environment - are we locked-in?","authors":"A. Persson, Henrik Gustavsson, B. Lings, B. Lundell, A. Mattsson, Ulf Ärlig","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.CH067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.CH067","url":null,"abstract":"Many companies are using model-based techniques to offer a competitive advantage in an increasingly globalised systems development industry. Central to model-based development is the concept of models as the basis from which systems are generated, tested and maintained. The availability of high-quality tools, and the ability to adopt and adapt them to the company practice, are important qualities. Model interchange between tools becomes a major issue. Without it, there is significantly reduced flexibility, and a danger of tool lock-in. We explore the use of a standardised interchange format (XMI) for increasing flexibility in a company environment. We report on a case study in which a systems development company has explored the possibility of complementingtheir current proprietary tools with open source products for supporting their model-based development activities. We found that problems still exist with interchange, and that the technology needs to mature before industrial- strength model interchange becomes a reality.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129343023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards an Ontology for Information Systems Development","authors":"M. Leppänen","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59904-759-1.ch020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-759-1.ch020","url":null,"abstract":"Various frameworks, meta models and reference models have been proposed to describe information systems development (ISD) and ISD methods. Most of them are informal or focused on some specific aspects. This paper presents an ISD ontology, which aims to provide an integrated conceptualization of ISD through anchoring it upon the contextual approach. The ISD ontology is composed of concepts, relationships and constraints referring to purposes, actors, actions and objects of ISD. It is presented as a terminology with defined concepts and in meta models in a UML-based ontology representation language. We believe that although not being complete the ISD ontology can promote the achievement of a shared understanding of contextual aspects in ISD. It can be used to analyze and compare existing frameworks and meta models and as a groundwork for engineering new ISD methods, or parts thereof.","PeriodicalId":209232,"journal":{"name":"International Working Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126698056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}