{"title":"Purpose of Enterprise Architecture Management: Investigating Tangible Benefits in the German Logistics Industry","authors":"Jürgen Jung","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00018","url":null,"abstract":"Following up a discussion during TEAR 2018 the paper at hands presents the results of a study for identifying tangible benefits expected from Enterprise Architecture in a corporate environment. There is a plethora of text books and papers available, but they rather address general or high-level benefits like transparency, alignment (strategic or between business and IT, planning (strategic, tactical or operational). These are often not addressing specific concerns within a company so that they seem to be abstract. This paper summarizes the feedback provided by Enterprise Architects and decision makers from the logistics industry. This feedback has been collected by performing individual interviews during which interviewees should provide typical questions that EA is expected to answer in their respective environment. These questions represent an intermediate result towards a more general catalogue of concrete concerns. These are supposed to enable the design of a lightweight methodology for Enterprise Architecture Management focusing on solving immediate issues.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"125 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":"121608978","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":"Enacting a Rule-Based Alert Business Process in Smart Healthcare Using IoT Wearables","authors":"Long-Phuoc Tôn, Lam-Son Lê","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00029","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT), it is expected that patients will benefit from smart healthcare solutions where real-time data are exchanged to help medical practitioners make the necessary decisions. A wearable is a lightweight device that relies on data-driven communications to keep people connected purposefully, for instance, for fire-fighting, prompting fast-food clients, medical treatment. We demonstrate how wearables can be programmed semi-automatically to enact a medical rule-based alert process that assists hospital doctors in taking care of outbreak patients. This flexible business process allows medical treatment for dengue and meales to be customized to fit the outbreak scale and patient demographics.","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":"125365568","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 Formal Description Language for Digital IT Consulting Products in Decentralized IT Consulting Firms","authors":"Meikel Bode","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00037","url":null,"abstract":"Today IT consulting services are neither digitalized nor standardized widely. They are conducted with the help of consultants and are fully based on these professionals’ knowledge and experience. Thus, the results of IT consulting initiatives often differ considerably. With the increasing demands of digitalization and globalization, new and relevant challenges arise within the IT consulting sector. Asset- or platform-based approaches can be considered as a possible means to address these challenges in the current consulting research literature. We believe that these approaches require significantly more research related to formal description of IT consulting services. Formally described Digital IT Consulting Products should be the foundation of computer-based interpretation and a future digital IT consulting service system based management and provisioning. This Ph.D. research project addresses this topic first by conducting a structured literature review to understand the state-of-the-art in IT consulting service digitalization and formal service description. This is followed by focus group interviews conducted with experts from the IT consulting sector in order to understand stakeholder requirements and to be able to design a formal description language. The formal description language is validated by implementation and testing of a prototyped digital IT consulting service system and its experimental analysis.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"6 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":"129407843","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}
M. Iacob, G. Charismadiptya, M. V. Sinderen, J. Piest
{"title":"An Architecture for Situation-Aware Smart Logistics","authors":"M. Iacob, G. Charismadiptya, M. V. Sinderen, J. Piest","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00030","url":null,"abstract":"Disruptions and exceptions are an important source of risks in logistics, as far as the planning of transportation services is concerned. Failing to rapidly react on and handle such events may lead to serious depreciation of the transported cargo and reputation damage. The Internet of Things seems to be the technology capable of providing the tools required to detect exceptions nearly real-time. However, currently, there is little research on how to enhance the detected exceptions with related information from internal or external sources. Furthermore, most exception detection capabilities rely on experience and not much research exist on how to improve the accuracy of using third-party knowledge. In this paper, we propose a reference architecture for situation-aware logistics. The architecture specification follows the key principles derived from an extensive requirements analysis, the state of the art literature, and the ideas promoted by the Industrial Data Space initiative. The proposed architecture has been instantiated and tested by means of a prototype designed for the case of temperature-controlled transportation services.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"29 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":"132807483","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}
Hugo A. López, Morten Marquard, Lukas Muttenthaler, R. Strømsted
{"title":"Assisted Declarative Process Creation from Natural Language Descriptions","authors":"Hugo A. López, Morten Marquard, Lukas Muttenthaler, R. Strømsted","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00027","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report recent advances on user support for declarative process generation from natural language descriptions. The Process Highlighter is a hybrid-modelling tool that facilitates the (manual) creation of Dynamic Response Condition (DCR) graphs directly from text documents, supporting non-technical users in the adoption of declarative process models. While some process descriptions are a few paragraphs long, others, such as the ones coming from municipal governments and legal bodies might contain several pages. Some aspects that undermine the adoption of hybrid modelling techniques and their promised one-to-one correspondence between texts and process models are the length of the texts, the inconsistent use of terms, and the difficulty in identifying textual elements that correspond to elements in a declarative process model. To mitigate these risks, we have implemented major additions in the Process Highlighter for industrial usage. The principal change is the inclusion of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to support users in the identification of roles, activities and constraints. This, combined with the modelling, simulation and verification tools already existing in the framework, support the users in providing process models that are better aligned with their specifications, in a shorter time. These features are motivated from empirical observations of the use of the Process Highlighter in groups of caseworkers and students of process engineering in Danish universities.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"55 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":"122483776","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 SoEA4EE 2019 Workshop Chairs","authors":"Edocw","doi":"10.1109/edocw.2019.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/edocw.2019.00008","url":null,"abstract":"Since its foundation in 2009, the SoEA4EE workshop complements well-established topics of the EDOC conferences such as service-oriented architectures and enterprise service architectures by addressing the coupling of business processes and services and the alignment of business and IT. The SoEA4EE workshop also includes topics such as Business Process Management, Enterprise Service Architectures, Analytics, Big Data, Networked Enterprise Solutions, and their connections.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"46 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":"117050072","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 Assessment Method for Social Transparency in Enterprise Information Systems","authors":"Tahani Alsaedi, Keith Phalp, Raian Ali","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00033","url":null,"abstract":"Social transparency through an enterprise information system refers to the use of digital media by individuals and groups to communicate their own information voluntarily to others within their work environment. It is typically meant to support positive work ethics such as collaboration, trust, efficiency and informed decision-making. Unmanaged social transparency may lead to negative consequences such as information overload, motivating unwanted grouping amongst colleagues and leading to an increased pressure to perform in a certain manner. There is a lack of systematic methods to evaluate and assess the quality of social transparency in general and its shortcomings and risks in particular. Our research aims to provide engineering methods for social transparency platforms as a domain-specific social computing service that can shepherd interactions and analyse content and detect and correct anomalies. As a first step, we conducted a multistage qualitative study, including focus groups and in-depth interviews to explore and conceptualise online social transparency and the risks stemming from its unmanaged implementation. We provide a reference model as a starting point for methods to assess social transparency risks. Our conceptualisation and reference model are based on a goal-oriented requirement engineering (GORE) mindset mainly because transparency and its effects are closely related to intentions, tasks, resources, strategies, and inter-dependencies between organisational actors; all of which are common constructs in GORE.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121784492","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}
Simon Hacks, Hendrik Höfert, Johannes Salentin, Y. Yeong, H. Lichter
{"title":"Towards the Definition of Enterprise Architecture Debts","authors":"Simon Hacks, Hendrik Höfert, Johannes Salentin, Y. Yeong, H. Lichter","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2019.00016","url":null,"abstract":"In the software development industry, Technical Debt is regarded as a critical issue in terms of the negative consequences such as increased software development cost, low product quality, decreased maintainability, and slowed progress to the long-term success of developing software. However, despite the vast research contributions in Technical Debt management for software engineering, the idea of Technical Debt fails to provide a holistic consideration to include both IT and business aspects. Further, implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) project might not always be a success due to uncertainty and unavailability of resources. Therefore, we relate the consequences of EA implementation failure with a new metaphor –Enterprise Architecture Debt (EA Debt). We anticipate that the accumulation of EA Debt will negatively influence EA quality, and expose the business to risk.","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130414350","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 Workshop and Demo Chairs","authors":"M. Ekstedt, I. Rychkova","doi":"10.1109/edocw.2019.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/edocw.2019.00005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":246655,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE 23rd International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"49 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":"124792188","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}