{"title":"A Case Study of Stakeholder Concerns on EAM","authors":"Simon Hacks, Maximilian Brosius, Stephan Aier","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.17","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of growing complexities in business processes, information systems, and the technical infrastructure, a key challenge for enterprise architecture management (EAM) is to guide stakeholders from different hierarchical levels with heterogeneous concerns. EA deliverables, such as models or frameworks, are often highly comprehensive and standardized. However, these can hardly be applied without greater adaption. Although the literature selectively covers approaches for tailoring EA deliverables closer to the concerns of affected stakeholders, these approaches are often vague or not very differentiated. In the paper at hand, we aim at introducing a stakeholder perspective to EAM research that considers stakeholder concerns on EAM across hierarchical levels. To this end, we conduct a case study: Our results show homogenous concerns among stakeholders on EA deliverables. In turn, we found different concerns on the role of EAM in applying these deliverables, dependent on the hierarchical level of stakeholders. These findings stress the necessity for a more differentiated understanding of stakeholder concerns on EAM. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for an exemplary EAM approach.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116514549","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}
Patrick Saint-Louis, Marcklyvens C. Morency, J. Lapalme
{"title":"Defining Enterprise Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Patrick Saint-Louis, Marcklyvens C. Morency, J. Lapalme","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.16","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among researchers and practitioners concerning Enterprise Architecture (EA). Despite this increase, several studies have reported a lack of common understanding in EA. Some specific expressions like lack of common terminology, lack of shared meaning and fragmented literature have been frequently used to describe this lack. However, very few systematic studies have been conducted to gain a better understanding about the nature and the extend of these definition differences. This study presents a Systematic Literature Review considering journal articles that contain explicit definitions of EA. 145 definitions were identified and analyzed in order to determine their similarities and differences. The analysis was guided by concepts from the field of terminology. The findings of this study show that there are significant divergences of multiple kind between definitions. The next steps for the EA community would be to achieve something comparable to MacGregor's Theory X and Theory Y model or Mintzberg's schools of thought.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130541712","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 2017 Workshop Chairs","authors":"S. Nurcan, Rainer Schmidt","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.9","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 shows relationships to topics of the EDOC such as Business Process Management, Enterprise Service Architectures, Analytics, Big Data and Networked Enterprise Solutions and, in some way, their inter connections.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129581798","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}
Archimedes A. Detoni, Gabriel M. Miranda, Laylla D. C. Renault, R. Falbo, J. P. Almeida, G. Guizzardi, M. Barcellos
{"title":"Exploring the Role of Enterprise Architecture Models in the Modularization of an Ontology Network: A Case in the Public Security Domain","authors":"Archimedes A. Detoni, Gabriel M. Miranda, Laylla D. C. Renault, R. Falbo, J. P. Almeida, G. Guizzardi, M. Barcellos","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.29","url":null,"abstract":"Ontologies play a key role in semanticinteroperability projects, capturing the conceptualizationunderlying the various systems to be integrated. In the case oflarge information systems landscapes, a single monolithicontology often becomes hard to design and maintain. In thissetting, it is common to divide the ontological model inconsistently interlinked modular ontologies, forming anontology network. This paper explores the role of EnterpriseArchitecture (EA) models in defining the ontologies in anontology network. We report on an exploratory study in thescope of an e-Government interoperability project in the areaof public security. In the reported study, an EA model providesguidance in the modularization of the ontology network.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133491501","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}
A. Zimmermann, Rainer Schmidt, K. Sandkuhl, Dierk Jugel, J. Bogner, Michael Möhring
{"title":"Decision Management for Micro-Granular Digital Architecture","authors":"A. Zimmermann, Rainer Schmidt, K. Sandkuhl, Dierk Jugel, J. Bogner, Michael Möhring","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.14","url":null,"abstract":"Digitization fosters the development of IT environments with many rather small structures, like Internet of Things (IoT), Microservices, or mobility systems. They are needed to support flexible and agile digitized products and services. The goal is to create service-oriented enterprise architectures (EA) that are self-optimizing and resilient. The present research paper investigates methods for decision-making concerning digitization architectures for Internet of Things and Microservices. They are based on evolving enterprise architecture reference models and state of the art elements for architectural engineering for micro-granular systems. Decision analytics in this field becomes increasingly complex and decision support, particularly for the development and evolution of sustainable enterprise architectures, is sorely needed. The challenging of the decision processes can be supported with in a more flexible and intuitive way by an architecture management cockpit.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133937846","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 TEAR 2017 Workshop Chairs","authors":"Stephan Aier, U. Franke, M. Mocker","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives a brief overview of the 12th Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR) held at EDOC 2017. The paper introduces the Workshop research topics and presents the accepted papers.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126993374","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 VORTE 2017 Workshop Chairs","authors":"J. P. Almeida, M. Grüninger, G. Guizzardi","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.24","url":null,"abstract":"This paper gives a brief overview of the International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE) held at EDOC 2017. The paper introduces the workshop series' research topics and presents this year's program","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133510980","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":"Pattern-Based Analysis of Business-IT Mismatches in EA Models: Insights from a Case Study","authors":"Dóra Ori, Z. Szabó","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.23","url":null,"abstract":"Malfunctioning areas and various business-IT mismatches encumber the achievement of strategic alignment. This paper deals with the concept of misalignment, with special attention to enterprise architecture (EA)-based analytical potential. In this paper, an analytical solution is tested in form of a case study at a road management authority. The study proposes a rule-based framework to reveal the symptoms of malfunctioning alignment areas. In the proposed framework rule construction is supported by Schematron, a pattern-based XML validation language. Schematron language is used for making assertions about patterns (i.e. misalignment symptoms) found in the XML exports of the EA models. Queries are processed for every suitable EA model within the proposed EA model structure at the case organization. The paper highlights the results from the empirical investigation.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"99 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128011523","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 System Organic Architecture Based on Dynamic Functional Architecture Modeling","authors":"Jacques Simonin, P. Pillain","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.12","url":null,"abstract":"We focus on dynamic model usability and utility, performed throughout system engineering. The dynamic model is designed in relation to the system use scenarios. We generate then automatically the static models (data model, component model) from the dynamic one. A dynamic functional modeling based method is proposed to generate automatically the static and the dynamic organic architecture of a system. The method consists of the definition of system engineering rules constraining the transformation of a dynamic functional model of the system into static and dynamic organic models. The system engineering rules conform to a 3-layers organic architecture. The implementation of this transformation with operational-QVT allows an automatic generation of the organic models. The illustration of the transformation concerns a system of ordering. This work discusses on the relevancy of this method based on Model Driven Engineering.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131668523","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":"Aligning Service Level Agreements with Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture","authors":"Trung-Viet Nguyen, Lam-Son Lê, Khuong Nguyen-An, Thai-Minh Truong","doi":"10.1109/EDOCW.2017.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDOCW.2017.11","url":null,"abstract":"High-level enterprise services are considered as wrappers of business processes and ICT capabilities in enterprise architecture. Enterprise services have distinctive features that are not typically observed in Web services, e.g. signicant portions of the functionality of these services might be executed in a human-mediated fashion. As such, a service level agreement should be described as a mixture of human-mediated functionality (e.g., service penalty) and computer-interpretable factors (e.g., reliability, payment). This paper reports our preliminary work in defining a taxonomy for co-relating SLAs with elements of enterprise architecture. It gives insight into the alignment between what the enterprise in questions contractually agrees with its partners (or customers) and what it possesses to be able to fulfill the agreement. We define the service level agreement formally. We adopt the ArchiMate – a widely used language for modeling and analyzing enterprise architectures. We then propose the corelation between items in the agreement with elements in the enterprise architecture. We showcase our work using a real-life case-study in the retailing market of domestic airfare.","PeriodicalId":315067,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOCW)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116265923","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}