The Practice of Enterprise Modeling - Second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, November 18-19, 2009, Proceedings

von: Anne Persson, Janis Stirna (Hrsg.)

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9783642053528 , 268 Seiten

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The Practice of Enterprise Modeling - Second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, PoEM 2009, Stockholm, Sweden, November 18-19, 2009, Proceedings


 

Preface

5

Organization

7

Table of Contents

9

Keynotes

9

To Make Modeling a Natural Tool in Business Development We Need to Stop Talking about Modeling

11

Background

11

Business Development and Models

11

The Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating

12

Enterprise Modeling – What We Have Learned, and What We Have Not

13

Background

13

Lessons Learned

13

Future Directions

15

References

16

Experiences in Enterprise Modeling

9

Information Demand Context Modelling for Improved Information Flow: Experiences and Practices

18

Introduction

18

The Constituent of Information Demand

19

Industrial Application Cases

20

Practices of Information Demand Modelling

21

Common Problems Related to Information Demand

22

Information Demand Modelling

23

Reflections and Discussion

27

Methods Supporting Action

27

Validity of Practices from EM

29

Summary and Future Work

31

References

31

The Common Model of an Enterprise’s Value Objects, Presented in Relevant Business Views

33

Introduction

33

Work Procedure for the Effort

35

Organization of the Paper

36

The Cases

36

Case 1 - Matching Revenue to Cost of the Products

36

Case 2 - A Portal Business Start-Up during the Dot-Com Era

39

Case 3 - A Large Manufacturer of Vehicles (Common Object Model)

41

Case 4 – A Large Manufacturer of Vehicles (Service Market View of Corporate Common Object Model)

43

Experiences

44

Deliverables Case #1

44

Deliverable Case #2

44

Deliverable Case #3

44

Deliverable Case #4

45

Conclusions and Future Work

45

References

47

On the Use of i* for Architecting Hybrid Systems: A Method and an Evaluation Report

48

Introduction

48

The Experience

49

The ETAPATELECOM Case

49

The Cuenca Airport Case

49

The DHARMA Method

50

The i* Framework from the Stakeholder Point of View

52

Initial Modeling

52

The Model as a Communication Mean

55

The i* Framework from the Modeler Point of View

56

Drawing of the Diagram

56

Reusability

56

DHARMA-Related Lessons Learned

59

Conclusions and Future Work

61

References

62

The Process of Modeling

9

Interactions, Goals and Rules in a Collaborative Modelling Session

64

Introduction

64

Analytical Setup

66

Research Questions

66

General Set-Up of the Study

66

Framework and Concepts

69

Findings

71

Categorization of the Speech-Acts

72

Categorization of Topics of Interactions

73

Rules and Goals

73

Overall Findings and Observations

74

Comparison with Existing Frameworks

75

Conclusions and Further Research

77

References

77

Evaluating Modeling Sessions Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

79

Introduction

79

Modeling Process Evaluation Framework

80

Research Setup: Case Study Scenario

81

Proposed Evaluation Method: AHP Method

84

Analytic Hierarchy Process Methodology

84

Structural Decomposition Step

84

Pairwise Comparison - Comparison Scale

85

Pairwise Comparison - Forming a Comparative Matrix

87

Relative Weight Estimation - Eigenvector Method

88

Consistency Check

89

Synthesizing - Overall Rating and Ranking

90

Related Work

91

Conclusion and Future Work

92

References

92

A Goal–Oriented Approach for Business Process Improvement Using Process Warehouse Data

94

Introduction

94

Related Work

95

Process Design Framework

96

Case Study

97

A Decision Relationship Model for Process Improvement

98

Using DRM for Process Improvement

100

Application of DRM for Process Improvement: A Case Study

103

Conclusion

106

References

106

Enterprise Modeling in Information Systems Development

9

From i* Requirements Models to Conceptual Models of a Model Driven Development Process

109

Introduction

109

Background

110

The Case Study

110

The i* Goal-Oriented Requirements Framework Overview

111

The OO-Method Model-Driven Development Approach Overview

112

From i* Requirements Models to Conceptual Models

114

The i* Model´s Analysis

115

The Transformation Guidelines

116

Discussion

120

Related Works

122

Conclusions and Future Works

122

References

123

A Combined Framework for Development of Business Process Support Systems

125

Introduction

125

Related Work

126

Business Process Characterizing Model (BPCM)

128

The Combined Framework

130

Business Process Characterizing Model

131

Goal Model

131

Process Model

132

Executable Model

132

Ideas to Guide Process Modeling Based on a BPCM

133

Exemplar

134

Discussion

136

Lessons Learnt from the Exemplar

136

From a BPMN Process Model to IT System

137

BPCM Related Issues and Future Work

137

References

137

Towards Better Fitting Data Warehouse Systems

140

Introduction

140

DW in the Organizational Context

141

The Goal-Decision-Information (GDI) Model

141

Eliciting Information

143

Information Identifier

148

Sub Decision Identifier

149

Impact: Comparison

151

Conclusion

153

References

153

Model Quality and Reuse

10

Evaluating Goal Achievement in Enterprise Modeling – An Interactive Procedure and Experiences

155

Introduction

155

Modeling and Analysis with Goal- and Agent-Oriented Models: A Sample Methodology

157

A Qualitative, Interactive Evaluation Procedure for the i* Framework

160

Experience from Case Studies

164

Experimental Results

165

Related Work

167

Discussion, Conclusions, and Future Work

167

References

169

The Impact of Secondary Notation on Process Model Understanding

171

Introduction

171

Graphical Layout and Understanding

172

Modeling Expertise and Understanding

175

Propositions

178

Experimental Setup

181

Stimulus

181

Comprehension Performance

181

Potential Interactions

182

Conclusion

183

References

183

Towards Cross Language Process Model Reuse – A Language Independent Representation of Process Models

186

Introduction

186

Research Approach

187

Process Description for Storing Business Processes

188

Generic Metamodel for Business Processes

189

A Generic Process Description

190

Matching Process Modeling Languages to the Generic Metamodel

191

Generic Data Model for Process Description DB

192

On Using the Generic Data Model

194

Generating Process Model from Process Description DB: An Example

196

Discussion and Conclusions

198

References

198

Enterprise Modeling for Service Modeling

10

Service–Driven Information Systems Evolution: Handling Integrity Constraints Consistency

201

Introduction

201

Information System Service

202

Defining ISS Overlap and Inconsistency

204

Handling Integrity Constraints Consistency

207

Integrity Constraints Overlap Situations

207

Method Chunks for Integrity Constraints Consistency Handling

208

Evaluating Integrity Constraints Consistency Handling Impact

211

Service Evolution Indicators

211

Applying the Indicators

213

Conclusion

214

References

215

Socio-instrumental Service Modelling: An Inquiry on e-Services for Tax Declarations

217

Introduction

217

Research Approach

218

Some Fundamentals of Socio-instrumental Pragmatism

219

Socio-instrumental Service Modelling: A Taxation Case Study

221

Service Interaction Modelling

221

Contextual Service Definition

224

Service Pattern Analysis

225

A Socio-instrumental Understanding of Services and Co-services

228

Conclusions

230

References

230

New Ventures in Enterprise Modeling

10

A Game Prototype for Basic Process Model Elicitation

232

Introduction

232

Utilitarian Idea behind the Game

234

The Game

236

Game Components

239

Game Mechanics

239

Game Rules: Goals, Assignments; End Condition

240

Game Rules: Score System

240

After the Game: Deriving a BMPN Diagram

240

Development and Evaluation

241

Lessons Learned

242

What Went Well

243

What Went Not So Well

244

Conclusions and Further Research

244

References

245

Enterprise Models as Data

247

Introduction

247

On the Notion of Information

247

Three Roles of EM

248

A Simplified Model of Use of EM

250

Difficulties in Obtaining Information from EM

251

Conclusions

252

References

253

The IT-Socket: Model-Based Realisation of the Business and IT Alignment Framework

255

Introduction

255

Idea and Definition of the IT-Socket

256

Related Work

257

The Analysis of the IT-Socket

258

The Model-Based Realization of the IT-Socket

260

The Six Elements of the IT-Socket

260

The Semantic within the IT-Socket

262

Conclusion

264

References

265

Author Index

268