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Earlier research has identified network analysis techniques, methods, and models used to analyze structural aspects of an enterprise architecture (EA) modeled as a network or graph. However, there is still no common set of conceptual elements for such research that could allow one to identify the information requirements needed to perform this type of analysis. In the present research, we organize...
Looking at the end-to-end processing, typical software-intensive systems are built as a system-of-systems where each sub-system specializes according to both the business and technology perspective. One challenge is the integration of all systems into a single system — crossing technological and organizational boundaries as well as functional domains. To facilitate the successful integration we propose...
Enterprise architecture supports enterprise transformation through model-based holistic descriptions that capture and share the knowledge, concepts, and relationships representing the enterprise. Although enterprise architecture models portray the gap between the as-is and to-be enterprise, they disregard the underlying aspects that together enact enterprise transformation. This paper proposes an...
Today, processing integrated information within and between enterprises is increasingly becoming more and more critical, and so is the implementation and evaluation of an Enterprise Architecture (EA). The review of literature on EA evaluation shows several issues. However, the evaluation of EAs has not attracted sufficient attention, and thus, this research area has not been explored thoroughly yet...
The component-based business architecture integration of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems is a popular research topic in the field of military operational research. Currently, the prevalent methodologies for business component integration tend to focus on software-level business component, and ignore enterprise concerns in business...
Over dozens of years, applying new IT technologies into organizations has always been a big concern for business. Big data certainly is a new concept exciting business. To be able to access more data and empower to analysis big data requires new big data platforms. However, there still remains limited reference architecture for big data systems. In this paper, based on existing reference architecture...
We investigate an application of model checking techniques to automated verification of business processes expressed in ArchiMate language. As a verification tool the state of the art symbolic model checker NuSMV is used. The proposed approach consists in fully automated translation of behavioral elements embedded in ArchiMate models into a corresponding representation in NuSMV language and then verifying...
The rise of micro services as architectural pattern creates a bunch of interesting opportunities for software architectures of modelling editors and additional services. Main advantages are the scalability in collaborative distributed scenarios and enhanced possibilities regarding service development and operation. Throughout this article, we will illustrate how modelling editors and additional services...
This paper develops a holistic framework to examine the changing business models in creative industries in the digital economy, using evidence gathered from two strands of empirical work. The research found that digital technologies have facilitated pervasive changes in business models in all sectors of the creative industries, but with only a few exceptions, the resultant new business models are...
Managing knowledge through analyzing big data is a complex and difficult task owing to extensive amount of hidden information and patterns within them. Visualization is a technique that helps analysts to overcome such difficulties by representing data in a graphical view. Collaborative visualization refers to a group effort of analyzers who work on a same problem where they share their collective...
To stay competitive, enterprises must respond to changes as effectively and efficiently as possible and ensure the employed courses of action, whether in response to change or even to optimize business as usual, fall within the purview of internal and external directives. Often, the traceability from change drivers that led to specific directives being applied to actual business rules implementing...
To stay competitive in dynamic environment, enterprises need to be able to efficiently and effectively respond to changes. Both visual modeling and programmable analysis support is needed for modeling a) motivations behind and goals in response to change, b) the AS-IS state of enterprise, c) possible TO-BE states, and d) operationalization model that captures paths from AS-IS to desired TO-BE states,...
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline designed to cope with the complexity of modern enterprises at the intersection of information technology and business operations. This article demonstrates how EA models can be enriched with the production function concept from microeconomics, enabling new and business relevant kinds of analysis. The approach is demonstrated through examples regarding growth...
In this paper we analyze the structuring principles underlying Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture (SoEA) in the light of a core reference ontology for services (UFO-S). The ontology provides a broad account for services and is centered on the service commitments/claims that are established by service participants throughout the service lifecycle. UFO-S is applied as theory to support the analysis...
Service Creation Environments facilitate the creation of complex services and play a major role in the software industry. In this context, we aim at developing a domain-specific framework (networking domain) that uses a chain of existing "off-the-shelf" tools that are integrated together from the design phase to the verification activities. In this paper, we propose a new meta-model that...
IT has changed business model and business process, and has become an essential ingredient for the competitive advantage. Under such circumstances, a conventional requirements engineering methodology is not sufficient. We propose an IT-driven business model design methodology in order to take advantage of innovative information technologies. The proposed methodology includes XBMC (eXtended BMC), an...
Advanced asset health management solutions blend business intelligence with analytics that incorporate expert operational knowledge of industrial equipment and systems. Key challenges in developing these solutions include: streamlining the capture and prepackaging of operational experts' knowledge as analytic modules, efficiently evolving the modules as knowledge grows, adapting the analytics in the...
Dynamic requirements and the high complexity of System of Systems (SoS) represent a great challenge to system designers and developers. Focusing the attention of both the academic and the industry work, SoS has become a critical research discipline. However, over the past decade, the lack of generic mature methodology prevented the developers from easily completing large-scale heterogeneous systems...
With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, environmental protection in developing countries such as China is under ever-increasing pressure. The establishment and improvement of environment protection management tools, particularly the digital systems, with properties of fast and efficient for environment problems disposal occur as an urgent task for scientific and government organizations...
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