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Both practitioners and researchers put forward enterprise architecture management as a mean for achieving success with information technology. Many arguments have been put forward to support the benefits claimed to arise from mature enterprise architecture management and a considerable amount of literature describes the components of mature (successful) enterprise architecture management. However,...
Models are an integral part of the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA). To stay relevant to management decision-making needs, the models need to be based upon suitable metamodels. These metamodels, in turn, need to be properly and continuously maintained. While there exists several methods for metamodel development and maintenance, these typically focus on internal metamodel qualities and metamodel...
Assessing life cycle costs of IT is a difficult endeavor. There are several factors that contribute to the life cycle costs of IT. Many of these factors are of a technical nature, such as development costs or integration costs. A substantial part of the costs are, however, caused by organizational factors such as the changes the introduction of an IT-system impose on business processes and the temporary...
A tool for enterprise architecture analysis using a probabilistic mathematical framework is demonstrated. The model-view-controller tool architecture is outlined, before the use of the tool is considered. A sample abstract maintainability model is created, showing the dependence of system maintainability on documentation quality, developer expertise, etc. Finally, a concrete model of an ERP system...
Enterprise architecture is a rising discipline that is gaining increasing interest in both industry and academia. It pays attention to the fact that effective management of business and IT needs take a holistic view of the enterprise. Enterprise architecture is based on graphical models as a vehicle for system analysis, design, and communication. Enterprise architecture is also a potential support...
The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for assessing the security of wide-area networks (WANs) used to operate electrical power systems. The framework is based on the formalism influence diagrams and the concept of defense graphs and facilitates a so-called consequence-based analysis of the security problem. The framework is also capable of managing uncertainties, both related to the...
To facilitate rational decision making regarding cyber security investments, decision makers need to be able to assess expected losses before and after potential investments. This paper presents a model based assessment framework for analyzing the cyber security provided by different architectural scenarios. The framework uses the Bayesian statistics based extended influence diagrams to express attack...
A business process is a collection of related structures and activities, undertaken by organizations in order to achieve certain business goals. The Web services-based business processes with a new set of protocols bring a new set of security challenges. As security has become an essential component for all software, several security solutions for XML and Web services have been proposed. In general,...
A XML service is a software component that supports interoperable application-to-application interaction over a network. Each service makes its functionality available through well-defined or standardized XML interfaces. Aviation XML services refer to the services that make operating an airplane in air and on ground possible. In this paper, we present an emergency response framework to organize the...
Summary form only given. A business process is a collection of related structures and activities, undertaken by organizations in order to achieve certain business goals. The Web services-based business processes with a new set of protocols bring a new set of security challenges. As security has become an essential component for all software, several security solutions for XML and Web services have...
Security is dependent on a mixture of interrelated concepts such as technical countermeasures, organizational policies, security procedures, and more. To facilitate rational decision making, these concepts need to be combined into an overall judgment on the current security posture, as well as potential future ones. Decision makers are, however, faced with uncertainty regarding both what countermeasures...
The discipline of enterprise architecture advocates the use of models to support decision-making on enterprise-wide information system issues. In order to provide such support, enterprise architecture models should be amenable to analyses of various properties, as e.g. the availability, performance, interoperability, modifiability, and information security of the modeled enterprise information systems...
When projects are sold with fixed prices, it is utterly important to quickly and accurately estimate the effort required to enable an optimal bidding. This paper describes a case study performed at a leading IT provider within the electric utility industry, with the purpose of improving the ability to early produce effort estimates of projects where standard functionality is delivered. The absence...
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