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SoSym Theme Issue: Enterprise Modelling

June 16, 2011 · Posted in Modelling · Comment 
SoSym Theme Issue: Enterprise Modelling
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Modern organizations rely on complex configurations of distributed IT systems that implement key business processes, provide databases, data warehousing, and business intelligence. The current business environment requires organizations to comply with a range of externally defined regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxleyand BASEL II.

Organizations need to be increasingly agile, robust, and be able to react to complex events, possibly in terms of dynamic reconfiguration.
In order to satisfy these complex requirements, large organizations are increasingly using Enterprise Modelling (EM) technologies to analyze their business units, processes, resources and IT systems, and to show how these elements satisfy the goals of the business. EM describes all aspects of the construction and analysis of organizational models and supports enterprise use cases including:
  • Business Alignment: elements of a business are shown to meet its goals.
  • Business Change Management: as-is and to-be models are used to plan how a business is to be changed.
  • Governance and Compliance: models are used to show that processes are in place to comply with regulations.
  • Acquisitions and Mergers: models are used to analyze the effect of combining two or more businesses.
  • Enterprise Resource Planning: models are used to analyze the use of resources within a business and to show that given quality criteria are achieved.
Emerging technologies, methods and techniques currently proposed for EM include:
  • Modelling Languages: including UML; SysML; ArchiMate; MODAF; TOGAF.
  • Enterprise Views: stakeholder identification; multiple linguistic communities.
  • Enterprise Patterns: an organization is shown to conform to general (possibly executable) organizational principles.
  • Event Driven Architectures: constructing enterprise architectures based on complex events.
  • Enterprise Simulation: executing configurations of organizational units in order to analyse and verify performance.
The Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) invites original, high-quality submissions for its theme issue on Enterprise Modelling  (EM). The aim of the theme issue is to bring together a collection of articles that describe a range of EM technologies and approaches in order to provide the reader with a single resource that captures the state of art. The theme issue will include an introduction to the field, an overview of the leading-edge languages and technologies used to undertake EM, and in-depth analysis of techniques or approaches for specific use-cases of EM.
Papers must be written in a scientifically rigorous manner with adequate references to related work.
Submitted papers must not be simultaneously submitted in an extended form or in a shortened form to other journals or conferences. It is however possible to submit extended versions of previously published work if less than 75% of the content already appeared in a non-journal publication, or less than 40% in a journal publication. Please see the SoSyM Policy Statement on Plagiarism for further conditions.
Submitted papers do not need to adhere to a particular format or page limit, but should be prepared using font “Times New Roman” with a font size no smaller than 11 pt, and with 1.5 line spacing. Please consult the SoSyM author information for submitting papers.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.
Important Dates:
  • Intent to submit : 01 Sep  11
  • Paper submission:  01 Nov 11
  • Notification: 01 Feb  12
  • Publication: 2012

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A Domain Specific Language for Contextual Design

October 15, 2010 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comment 

This paper was presented at the recent IFIP Human Centred Software Engineering Conference.

Abstract.

This paper examines the role of user-centered design (UCD) approaches to design and implementation of a mobile social software application to support student social workers in their work place. The experience of using a variant of UCD is outlined. The principles and expected norms of UCD raised a number of key lessons. It is proposed that these problems and lessons are a result of the inadequacy of precision of modeling the outcomes of UCD, which prevents model driven approaches to method integration between UCD approaches. Given this, it is proposed that the Contextual Design method is a good candidate for enhancing with model driven principles. A subset of the Work model focussing on Cultural and Flow models are described using a domain specific language and supporting tool built using the MetaEdit+ platform.

The full paper is available in the Springer LNCS 6409 series. ISBN 0302-9743

A preprint is available here

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Dynamic and seamless capture of actions and not the outputs in learning

March 3, 2010 · Posted in Higher Education · Comment 

In a recent conversation with a research professor at my institution we were discussing some ideas that were initially seeded by some existing work we were doing on visual analytics. As our ideas began to develop, first in discussion, then on a shared piece of paper and then onto the whiteboard, the ideas became more solid but at the same time less rich. In our desire to capture the outputs, we lost so much rich interaction. Clearly this has echoes of the SECI Knowledge Creation cycle reported by Nonaka in his book the Knowledge Creating Company.

We then surmised that this issue has resonance with students and group work. Academics set group assignments expecting the students to collaborate. Institutions then invest in – group work rooms that have a single projector for example, digital resources that are accessed by a single id and expect students to go through the knowledge creation cycle in a collaborative manner. Some efforts to provide an technical infrastructure for supporting the knowledge cycle exists via the use of discussion boards – but is that enough?

We posited that we need new learning spaces that support the dynamic, seamless capture of the knowledge creation process. Such spaces must capture pen strokes, video, audio, and the move to the whiteboard and to do so against a timeline. Then this wealth of data must be minable and concept driven to enable later visualisation and also be aligned with the original intentions of the collaborating group. The question arises – is the current range of technologies, iphones, ipads, usb capture pens, interactive whiteboards, touch sensitive large screens now robust enough and can they be integrated to provide such a learning space?

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

February 28, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 
  • Football Philosophy: Mourinho: I came to Italy a honest person and I will leave Italy as an honest professional #
  • Student Daughter back home for weekend - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/9DEUaN #
  • Sachin Tendulkar the first to 200 in an ODI!!! - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/9eSKFh #
  • The Ford /Amis spat gets better - following Amis’s response yesterday, Hitchin also writes in todays Guardian: http://tinyurl.com/yzsye6h #
  • Now thats growing on me: TWERTCH: the art of watching tv and working in 140 sec bursts! #
  • Working from home is always that much more fun when India are playing cricket!. I’m learning to Watch and Work 140 sec bursts - twertch? #
  • Spice Palette - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/dAHzQh #
  • Abstract art - by Oliver Marsden vandalised! - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/9mNIar #
  • using ArgoUML for the Mac - just about ok - wish there was really good UML 2.0 tool for the Mac that is free! #
  • Yet another last resort for the daily photo - egg - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/bkGcRg #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

February 21, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

February 14, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 
  • A walk in the town - Library - useful building#1 - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/ds5m4S #
  • The great decant continues - Furniture done, now the TV and its appendages - here is the component wiring diagram: http://twitpic.com/12zzhr #
  • Is it just this the South? But where have all the birds gone? Absolutely zilch in garden for the last week. #
  • Contemplating the end of the week and how to siphon a room of furniture to the rest of the house in preparation for ceiling repair work. #
  • Catkins… - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/bgFu7X #
  • enjoying working at home - have already saved 3 hours of life and getting lots of things done. #
  • Diagonals - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/bika97 #
  • enjoying the warm glow from Wolves beating Spurs and mac lap heating properties- surely that should be listed as a design feature? #
  • Fire Station - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/bGKnPZ #
  • An old but useful sign? - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/b0olnh #
  • Enjoying marking UG dissertations (really) - Not too many to go - but will the feeling last? #
  • Google Goes Social with Google Buzz http://is.gd/81K5M. I saw this and thought - is Google shooting itself? What’s happened to Google Wave? #
  • The fight against bottled water - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/cGjUUY #
  • blip hunting in the marshes - new @blipfoto journal entry - http://bit.ly/ckISK9 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

February 7, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31

January 31, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

January 24, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 
  • In the Lamb and Flag after attending the demo - “I’m a photographer not a terrorist”. Lots of Canons and Nikons everywhere! #
  • another day of interviews, presentations before heading off to a workshop organised by the MOD #
  • Finishing off the final bits for bid due in this Thursday. #
  • Walk in the afternoon - looks like the whole of Green Wellie Berkshire was out today along the Thames - must be because #uksnow is defeated #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17

January 17, 2010 · Posted in General · Comment 

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