Despite offering several promising concepts, the Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is still not in the mainstream of Information Systems Development (ISD). With use of a comparative evaluation of LAP theory and DEMO theory, the... more
Despite offering several promising concepts, the Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is still not in the mainstream of Information Systems Development (ISD). With use of a comparative evaluation of LAP theory and DEMO theory, the implication of DEMO's reflection upon LAP is determined. The paper concludes by outlining an agenda for further research if LAP is to improve its footprint in the field.
... Glenda S. Hayes, Computer & Information Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile AL 36688 ... Also, a few members often dominate, with others saying little, and/or they may redirect discussions on... more
... Glenda S. Hayes, Computer & Information Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile AL 36688 ... Also, a few members often dominate, with others saying little, and/or they may redirect discussions on tangents, losing focus on the task 1211. ...
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Abstract 'Organizational transformation' is a term referring collectively to such activities as re-engineering, redesigning and redefining business systems. The dominant enabling technology in transforming organizations is... more
Abstract 'Organizational transformation' is a term referring collectively to such activities as re-engineering, redesigning and redefining business systems. The dominant enabling technology in transforming organizations is information and communication technology. The ...
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Abstract. Search engine-based features are a basic interaction mean for users to find information inside a Web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS); nonetheless, traditional solutions lack in mechanisms for access rights management for... more
Abstract. Search engine-based features are a basic interaction mean for users to find information inside a Web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS); nonetheless, traditional solutions lack in mechanisms for access rights management for data contained in search engines ' ...
The abatement of residual hydride and acid gases in the effluent from an ion implanter is a new concern for many facility, equipment, and process engineers, especially those who have converted from solid dopant to SDS gas sources. The... more
The abatement of residual hydride and acid gases in the effluent from an ion implanter is a new concern for many facility, equipment, and process engineers, especially those who have converted from solid dopant to SDS gas sources. The abatement requirements of ion implanters are unlike those of other wafer fabrication process tools. For example, the volumetric flow rate from
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Despite offering several promising concepts, the Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is still not in the mainstream of Information Systems Development (ISD). With use of a comparative evaluation of LAP theory and DEMO theory, the... more
Despite offering several promising concepts, the Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is still not in the mainstream of Information Systems Development (ISD). With use of a comparative evaluation of LAP theory and DEMO theory, the implication of DEMO's reflection upon LAP is determined. The paper concludes by outlining an agenda for further research if LAP is to improve its footprint in the field.
... Chicago. Dietz, Jan LG "Coherent, Consistent and Comprehensive Modeling of Communication, Information, Action and Organization." In Information Modeling in the New Millennium, ed. Matt Rossi, and Keng Siau,... more
... Chicago. Dietz, Jan LG "Coherent, Consistent and Comprehensive Modeling of Communication, Information, Action and Organization." In Information Modeling in the New Millennium, ed. Matt Rossi, and Keng Siau, 9-33 (2001), accessed September 22, 2011. ...
The research reported upon in this paper aims at reducing errors in both the requirements engineering and the system specification phase of software development, by means of system ontology. The notion of system ontology is introduced and... more
The research reported upon in this paper aims at reducing errors in both the requirements engineering and the system specification phase of software development, by means of system ontology. The notion of system ontology is introduced and discussed. A particular generic ontology is presented as well as an accompanying diagramming technique. The application of system ontology in software development is demonstrated and discussed, using the design of a traffic control system as an example.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperation and Interoperability, Architecture and Ontology, CIAO!, and the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation,... more
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperation and Interoperability, Architecture and Ontology, CIAO!, and the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008 in Montpellier, ...
Originating from quite different fields of theory and practice, the terms "Enterprise Ontology" and "Enterprise Architecture" currently belong to the standard vocabulary of those professionals who are concerned with... more
Originating from quite different fields of theory and practice, the terms "Enterprise Ontology" and "Enterprise Architecture" currently belong to the standard vocabulary of those professionals who are concerned with (re) designing and (re) engineering enterprises, thereby exploiting modern information and communication technologies for innovating products and services as well as for optimizing operational performance. Because of the inherent characteristics of modern enterprises, often operating within networks of cooperating enterprises, the task of these professionals can rightly be characterized as having to master unprecedented high complexity. The statement, put forward in the paper, that the current notion of Enterprise Ontology does not offer satisfactory help and thus needs to evolve into an effective conceptual tool, is clarified in a historical context. A standard is recently set by DEMO (Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations). In this me...
Enterprises increasingly execute complex transformations, such as mergers and splits, chain redesign, sharing and sourcing, and the rationalization of products, processes and applications. Its consequences are seldom sufficiently timely... more
Enterprises increasingly execute complex transformations, such as mergers and splits, chain redesign, sharing and sourcing, and the rationalization of products, processes and applications. Its consequences are seldom sufficiently timely and completely discerned, while this is essential for governing such a transformation. Already in a small example we can see why Enterprise Ontology, as defined in DEMO (Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations) delivers a clear and valuable instrument for transformation governance. Especially DEMO’s Construction Model, which is the most abstract ontological aspect model, combines high expressiveness with a high Return On Modeling Effort (ROME).
An organization can be understood as a social system, i.e. a system whose elements are social individuals or actors. The actors operate in an environment of customers, suppliers, partners and others which share a part of the... more
An organization can be understood as a social system, i.e. a system whose elements are social individuals or actors. The actors operate in an environment of customers, suppliers, partners and others which share a part of the organization’s world. The effects of the acts of all of these actors can be understood as state changes of the organization’s world. All information that is needed by the actors consists in either the facts that constitute the world’s states or in information that is derived from these facts. In DEMO (Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations) an organization is conceived as the layered nesting of three aspect organizations: the B-organization (from Business), the I-organization (from Intelligence) and the D-organizations (from Document). Whereas B-actors perform business acts, I-actors remember and derive information concerning the business, and D-actors store, transport and retrieve documents that contain this information. The design of the integrat...
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The competitiveness of value networks is highly dependent on the cooperation between business partners and the interoperability of their information systems. Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT), primarily the... more
The competitiveness of value networks is highly dependent on the cooperation between business partners and the interoperability of their information systems. Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT), primarily the emergence of the Internet, offer possibilities to increase the interoperability of information systems and therefore enable inter-enterprise cooperation. For the design of inter-enterprise information systems, the concept of business component appears to be very promising. However, the identification of business components is strongly dependent on the appropriateness and the quality of the underlying business domain model. The ontological model of an enterprise or an enterprise network as presented in this article, is a high-quality and very adequate business domain model. It provides all essential information that is necessary for the design of the supporting information systems, and at a level of abstraction that makes it also understandable for busi...
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has defined Quality Management, but it has not yet adopted standards for developing Quality Management Systems (QMSs), notably not for modeling business processes in this context.... more
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has defined Quality Management, but it has not yet adopted standards for developing Quality Management Systems (QMSs), notably not for modeling business processes in this context. Consequently a variety of modeling techniques are in use. Most of these are not able to produce concise and comprehensive models, whereas these features are particularly important for QMSs. Moreover, these techniques appear to be based on the mechanistic paradigm, meaning that they are task oriented instead of human oriented. Various researches indicate that this leads, among other things, to alienating employees from their work. DEMO (Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations) has both desirable features: it is human oriented and it produces concise and comprehensive models of business processes, since it is based on the systemic notion of enterprise ontology. This paper reports on the theoretical evaluation of DEMO for the purpose of dev...
The research reported upon in this paper aims at developing a meta ontology for organizations, i.e. a schema for devising the ontology of a particular organization or a reference ontology for a class of organizations. The prospect of such... more
The research reported upon in this paper aims at developing a meta ontology for organizations, i.e. a schema for devising the ontology of a particular organization or a reference ontology for a class of organizations. The prospect of such a meta ontology is provided by the Ψ-theory that underlies the DEMO methodology. General requirements regarding such a meta ontology are stated. The proposed meta ontology satisfies all of them. It has the added advantage that there are socionomic laws at its core; this reinforces the ontological quality. It has been applied in several health care cases in practice, out of which a reference model for health care organizations has arisen.
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Abstract. The competitiveness of value networks is highly dependent on the cooperation between business partners and the interoperability of their informa-tion systems. Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT),... more
Abstract. The competitiveness of value networks is highly dependent on the cooperation between business partners and the interoperability of their informa-tion systems. Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT), primarily the emergence of the Internet, offer ...
... forma informa performa A0 Æ A1 ... Actor A0 is the performer of the coordination act and A1 is the addressee. There are three conditions that must be satisfied for successfully performing a coordination act: the performa-condition,... more
... forma informa performa A0 Æ A1 ... Actor A0 is the performer of the coordination act and A1 is the addressee. There are three conditions that must be satisfied for successfully performing a coordination act: the performa-condition, the informa-condition and the forma-condition. ...
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Use cases are intended to capture the functional requirements of an information system. The problem of identifying use cases is however not satisfactorily resolved yet. The approach presented in this paper is to derive use cases from the... more
Use cases are intended to capture the functional requirements of an information system. The problem of identifying use cases is however not satisfactorily resolved yet. The approach presented in this paper is to derive use cases from the business system models that are produced by applying DEMO (Demo Engineering Methodology for Organizations). These models have three attractive properties: essence, atomicity
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ArchiMate is an approach to modeling the architecture of enterprises. In the corresponding architecture framework, three enterprise layers are distinguished: business, application and technology. Although ArchiMate is broadly applied in... more
ArchiMate is an approach to modeling the architecture of enterprises. In the corresponding architecture framework, three enterprise layers are distinguished: business, application and technology. Although ArchiMate is broadly applied in practice, its semantics appears to be undefined. DEMO is a methodology for enterprise engineering that is facing a rapidly growing acceptance. It is firmly rooted in a sound and appropriate
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Informata are introduced as a subclass of information systems. The SMARTIE framework is presented which supports the conceptual modelling of informata. The core of the framework is an automaton, which can be viewed as a generalization and... more
Informata are introduced as a subclass of information systems. The SMARTIE framework is presented which supports the conceptual modelling of informata. The core of the framework is an automaton, which can be viewed as a generalization and an extension of the finite state machine, but which also draws on results of language philosophical research. A model of a system in this framework is called a communication model, as opposed to the conventional process model. Several techniques supporting the modelling and the specification of systems in the SMARTIE framework are presented. To demonstrate the practical applicability of the modelling principles, a traffic control system is taken as an example.
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ABSTRACT A particular way of modelling communication in an organization is presented as a new basis for systems analysis. Speech act theory provides the theoretical foundation of this approach. The so-called essential system model is... more
ABSTRACT A particular way of modelling communication in an organization is presented as a new basis for systems analysis. Speech act theory provides the theoretical foundation of this approach. The so-called essential system model is identified as a missing kind of model in systems analysis, the usage of which however could mean a major improvement of current practice. The distinctive properties of essential system models are discussed, and a particular type of dynamic model, called the smartienet, is introduced. The potential impact of the application of smartienet based essential system models is illustrated using a simple business example.
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In the past, attempts were made to make law and justice more accessible to general audience and to legal practitioners using models of legal texts. We present a new approach to make the judicial workflows easier to understand. By using... more
In the past, attempts were made to make law and justice more accessible to general audience and to legal practitioners using models of legal texts. We present a new approach to make the judicial workflows easier to understand. By using process modelling methods, the developed representation emphasises on improving transparency, on promoting mutual trust and on formalising models for verification.