{"title":"Towards formalizing Virtual Enterprise Architecture","authors":"Amit Goel, H. Schmidt, David R. Gilbert","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331991","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise Architecture deals with the structure of an enterprise, relationships and interactions of its units. It provides a holistic approach to reconcile IT and Business concerns in an enterprise. Virtual Enterprises are collaborative ad-hoc alliances of multiple enterprises for a specific business opportunity. This paper looks into both the paradigms and Enterprise Architecture viewpoint of Virtual Enterprise. Service Oriented Architecture as a style of Enterprise Architecture proves to be an enabler of Virtual Enterprises at Business and Technology Levels. The three major challenges with Virtual Enterprise are flexibility, adaptability, and agility. This paper discusses Virtual Enterprise Architecture as a solution to these challenges, surveys research into formal models of Virtual Enterprise Architecture and identifies current gaps in this research.","PeriodicalId":226791,"journal":{"name":"2009 13th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130187776","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":"Making processes from best practice frameworks actionable","authors":"S. Graupner, H. M. Nezhad, S. Singhal, Sujoy Basu","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5332021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5332021","url":null,"abstract":"Best-practice frameworks provide guidance for organizing work in business. They enable reuse of experience within a domain. However, best practice frameworks are general and usually cover broad domains. Their guidance thus is often offered at an abstract level rather than as details of actionable tasks and processes to accomplish work. This paper presents an approach to bridge the gap between the abstractions available in best practice framework and actions that have to be performed by people or systems in a repeatable manner. We identify knowledge from best practices frameworks, categorize it and represent it in the form of reusable, interpretable templates. Template interpretation guides the refinement process from general concepts of best practices frameworks into actionable concepts such as specific tasks to be performed by assigned roles. A prototype implemented to validate the approach is also described.","PeriodicalId":226791,"journal":{"name":"2009 13th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121352816","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}
Thomas Kohlborn, Axel Korthaus, Christoph Riedl, H. Krcmar
{"title":"Service aggregators in business networks","authors":"Thomas Kohlborn, Axel Korthaus, Christoph Riedl, H. Krcmar","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331992","url":null,"abstract":"This position paper examines the development of a dedicated service aggregator role in business networks. We predict that these intermediaries will soon emerge in service ecosystems and add value through the application of dedicated domain knowledge in the process of creating new, innovative services or service bundles based on the aggregation, composition, integration or orchestration of existing services procured from different service providers in the service ecosystem. We discuss general foundations of service aggregators and present Fourth-Party Logistics Providers as a real-world example of emerging business service aggregators. We also point out a demand for future research, e.g. into governance models, risk management tools, service portfolio management approaches and service bundling techniques, to be able to better understand core determinants of competitiveness and success of service aggregators.","PeriodicalId":226791,"journal":{"name":"2009 13th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123698067","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}
Mathias Gotz, Stephan Roser, Florian Lautenbacher, B. Bauer
{"title":"Token analysis of graph-oriented process models","authors":"Mathias Gotz, Stephan Roser, Florian Lautenbacher, B. Bauer","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5332020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5332020","url":null,"abstract":"In Business Process Management, graph-based models are used to represent coordination protocols between collaborating partners as well as for service orchestration and composition. At runtime however, current process engines are commonly based on mainly block-structured languages, such as BPEL, that differ structurally and semantically from process graphs. Recent work has accomplished elaborate mappings between both representations. Although most mappings strongly depend on the segmentation of the graph-model into components, the necessary graph-decomposition itself is not described in these works. This paper presents a novel approach based on Token Analysis to automatically identify components. The technique also allows for optimizations by integrating further steps in the translation of process graphs to executable workflows.","PeriodicalId":226791,"journal":{"name":"2009 13th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124705639","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":"Benefits of SOA: Evaluation of an implemented scenario against alternative architectures","authors":"Philipp Offermann, Martina Hoffmann, Udo Bub","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2009.5331973","url":null,"abstract":"Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is based on a design principle for business software systems. The SOA movement has taken up momentum, especially because of widespread middleware vendor support, e.g. by IBM, HP, BEA, Microsoft, Sun, Software AG, TIBCO, Oracle, SAP and others. Still answers to questions of how the target architecture should look like and what the advantages over other architectures are remain open. We have implemented a scenario based on free software, which consists of a well-defined service-oriented target architecture. In this article, we compare the used service-oriented approach with other state-of-theart architectures to show that changeability and efficiency improve compared to alternative architectures.","PeriodicalId":226791,"journal":{"name":"2009 13th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124710130","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}