R. Bemthuis, M. Koot, M. Mes, F. Bukhsh, M. Iacob, N. Meratnia
{"title":"An Agent-Based Process Mining Architecture for Emergent Behavior Analysis","authors":"R. Bemthuis, M. Koot, M. Mes, F. Bukhsh, M. Iacob, N. Meratnia","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00022","url":null,"abstract":"Information systems leave a traceable digital footprint whenever an action is executed. Business process modelers capture these digital traces to understand the behavior of a system, and to extract actual run-time models of those business processes. Despite the omnipresence of such traces, most organizations face substantial differences between the process specifications and the actual run-time behavior. Analyzing and implementing the results of systems that model business processes tend, however, to be difficult due to the inherent complexity of the models. Moreover, the observed reality in the form of lower-level real-time events, as recorded in event logs, is seldom solely explainable by higher-level process models. In this paper, we propose an architecture to model system-wide behavior by combining process mining with a multi-agent system. Digital traces, in the form of event logs, are used to iteratively mine process models from which agents can learn. The approach is initially applied to a case study of a simplified job-shop factory in which automated guided vehicles (AGVs) carry out transportation tasks. Numerical experiments show that the workflow of a process mining model can be used to enhance the agent-based system, particularly, in analyzing bottlenecks and improving decision-making.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122214358","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":"Quantifying Enterprise Coherence","authors":"Joost Bekel","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00039","url":null,"abstract":"General Enterprise Architecting (GEA) is a framework to govern coherence in complex organizations, and is based on both scientific insights and experiences from practice. GEA postulates that coherence of an enterprise relates to its performance. A quantitative expression of enterprise coherence has the opportunity to function as a leading indicator for performance. GEA does measure steering on enterprise coherence, however measurement of enterprise coherence itself is yet lacking. The research offers a setup for design of an information product, that somehow expresses enterprise coherence itself.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"171 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115405257","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":"EDOC 2019 Demonstration Track","authors":"U. Franke","doi":"10.1109/edocw.2019.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/edocw.2019.00010","url":null,"abstract":"Program Committee Joao Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Amin Beheshti, Macquarie University, Australia Ruth Breu, Research Group Quality Engineering, Austria Samra Cherfi, CEDRIC, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France Dickson K.W. Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Florian Daniel, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST, Italy Luis Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, Netherlands Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil Jens Gulden, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Florian Matthes, Technical University of Munich, Germany Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Iosif Viorel Onut, IBM CAS and University of Ottawa, Canada Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia Keith D. Swenson, Fujitsu, USA Benjamin Yen, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University, Germany","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122506031","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":"EDOC 2019 Doctoral Consortium Organizers","authors":"Camille Salinesi","doi":"10.1109/edocw.2019.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/edocw.2019.00014","url":null,"abstract":"Program Committee Saïd Assar, IMT-BS, France Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Markus Borg, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Sweden Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Estefanía Serral, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes, France Thierno Tounkara, IMT-BS, France Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133500598","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":"Interactive Genetic Algorithms in Product-Service Clustering Design: Early Results and Roadmap","authors":"D. Tamburri, W. Heuvel","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00035","url":null,"abstract":"Service bundling is a well-known practice for companies to gain a competitive edge over others, by offering various differentiated products and services in a package. Unfortunately, currently each of them are typically delivered individually in splendid isolation, *either* as a product *or* as a service. We argue the need to investigate interactive genetic algorithms to shape product-service clusters wherefore recommendation as well as design, development, operation, and verification techniques from both fields can be joined together for cross-fertilization and mutual benefits. This article illustrates the aforementioned vision and evaluates it over early results from preliminary experimentation in the context of a real industrial case-study. Results show promise but also highlight plenty of avenues for further research.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131728068","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}
Thanh Nguyen-Van, TienTrien Le, Tuan Nguyen-Anh, Minh-Phuoc Nguyen-Ho, Tuong Nguyen-Van, Minh-Quoc Le-Tran, Quang Nhat Le, Harry Pham, Khuong Nguyen-An
{"title":"A System for Scalable Decentralized Random Number Generation","authors":"Thanh Nguyen-Van, TienTrien Le, Tuan Nguyen-Anh, Minh-Phuoc Nguyen-Ho, Tuong Nguyen-Van, Minh-Quoc Le-Tran, Quang Nhat Le, Harry Pham, Khuong Nguyen-An","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00028","url":null,"abstract":"Generating public randomness has been significantly demanding and also challenging, especially after the introduction of the Blockchain Technology. Lotteries, smart contracts, and random audits are examples where the reliability of the randomness source is a vital factor. We demonstrate a system of random number generation service for generating fair, tamper-resistant, and verifiable random numbers. Our protocol together with this system is an R&D project aiming at providing a decentralized solution to random number generation by leveraging the blockchain technology along with long-lasting cryptographic primitives including homomorphic encryption, verifiable random functions. The system decentralizes the process of generating random numbers by combining each party's favored value to obtain the final random numbers. Our novel idea is to force each party to encrypt his contribution before making it public. With the help of homomorphic encryption, all encrypted contribution can be combined without performing any decryption. The solution has achieved the properties of unpredictability, tamper-resistance, and public-verifiability. In addition, it only offers a linear overall complexity with respect to the number of parties on the network, which permits great scalability.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132170366","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":"Message from the EDOC 2019 Doctoral Consortium Chairs","authors":"Edocw","doi":"10.1109/edocw.2019.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/edocw.2019.00009","url":null,"abstract":"The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is an important satellite event of the EDOC conference. The DC is a forum of exchange organized to encourage Ph.D. students to present their early work, exchange with other researchers in their fields. A panel of senior researchers provides feedback and guidance on the work and advice on managing research projects. Submissions from Ph.D. students at an early stage of their research project, i.e., typically in their first or second year, are encouraged. A submission to the DC should clearly describe motivation, goal, expected results, and the research approach taken. Participants will be expected to actively discuss and argue about their work by reading each other’s work prior to the DC, giving a presentation and debating together, and listening to senior researchers’ feedback. This year the EDOC DC program consists of seven submissions. These submissions have been selected based on their fit with the topics of the EDOC conference and based on the results of the reviewing. Each submission was reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. The following criteria were applied: technical quality, clarity, adequacy of the problem statement, related work, self-contained and feasible method description, realistic expected results, and sensible evaluation plan. We hope that we have created an exciting Doctoral Consortium program and that it will be an engaging and fruitful experience for all participants.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114681439","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 Novel Approach to Modeling Enterprise Services Leveraging Object Cloning and Multilevel Classification","authors":"Lam-Son Lê, Thai-Minh Truong, A. Wegmann","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00036","url":null,"abstract":"Object-oriented modeling is concerned with capturing common properties of objects. The dominant thinking in this realm is to classify objects that share certain properties into what is called a class, which in turn enables us to instantiate additional objects. Deep modeling takes a step further by introducing the notion of clabject that might be instantiated multiple times until its instantiation potency runs out. This initiative has gained a lot of momentum of late, primarily due to the inadequacy of the classical mechanics of two-level object instantiation. There exists a less familiar way of reasoning in object-orientation that takes its root from the prototype theory. We believe that they co-exist as two sides of the same coin. Unfortunately, prototype-based modeling still stays on the sidelines in the mainstream of conceptual modeling and related areas (e.g., enterprise modeling). In this paper, we argue that the two methods actually complement each other. We propose a hybrid modeling suite that allows for both instantiation and cloning in enterprise modeling. We formally state that a clabject not only features the so-called potency (i.e., for how many levels this clabject might further be classified) but also carries the notion of characteristics (i.e., the extent to which this clabject resembles those being represented). We demonstrate our novel ways of modeling for capturing business processes in a service-oriented enterprise architecture.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130709541","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 a Probabilistic Approach for Better Change Management in BPM Systems","authors":"C. Cherif","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00040","url":null,"abstract":"The business process modeling has become a mature subject in the research of information systems domain. Although, the business process models remain in consistent evolution to be available for the enterprises to better respond to the market needs and to inflect the needs of different stakeholders, in consequence to construct and preserve their competitive advantages. In this regard, we propose a declarative (rule-based) approach which exploit the relationships among the artifacts (e.g. activities, data, and roles) of a business process model. It may also consider the context of the change and the history of dependencies among different elements of the process. We may then experiment the change impact prediction using inference made by either the probabilities, knowledge-base, or evolutionary algorithms. It may help to better assess the volume of impact, as a result of the planned change.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133133097","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":"Applying Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Automated Modeling in ArchiMate: A Realization Study","authors":"Björn Bebensee, Simon Hacks","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00017","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise Architecture modeling is an approach to manage modern IT infrastructure and landscapes to coordinate a multitude of IT projects in an organization. Enterprise architects apply modeling tools such as ArchiMate to document the enterprise architecture. Because these models have traditionally been created and maintained manually, efforts to manage IT architecture have been both time-consuming and error-prone. We evaluate an approach by Johnson et al. (2016) for automated generation of these models from observed network traffic using Dynamic Bayesian Networks. As inference in large Dynamic Bayesian Network proves computationally infeasible, we propose an alternative approach using a set of Hidden Markov Models to model the current network state, present an implementation, and evaluate its performance in a real-world setting.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123164850","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}