Sebis Research News

The article A Viable System Perspective on Enterprise Architecture Management has been accepted for publication at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2009). In this article, the author team (S.Buckl and C.M.Schweda) discusses, how the cybernetic model of the viable system can be employed to explain the different interacting systems, which together form the EA management system. Based on this perspective, current EA management approaches from literature are analyzed. In particular, their coverage of the five constituing subsystems of a viable system is assessed. From this, a course of action for future research is sketched.

The article Using Enterprise Architecture Management Patterns to complement TOGAF has been accepted for publication at the 13th International EDOC conference (EDOC 2009).  In this article, the author team (S.Buckl, A.M.Ernst, F.Matthes, R. Ramacher and C.M.Schweda) discusses, how EAM pattern can be used to implement the architecture development method (ADM) of TOGAF. Further, the question how the ADM can be used to structure EAM patterns is shortly alluded to.

An article about Enterprise Architecture Management Patterns for Enterprise Architecture Visioning has been accepted for EuroPLoP 2009. In this article, the author team (Sabine Buckl, Alexander M. Ernst, Florian Matthes, Christian M. Schweda) present EAM patterns for creating an architecture vision and detailling it to a target architecture.

The EAM patterns included in the article will be available in the EAM Pattern Catalog Wiki after the conference, which will be held July 8-12, 2009 at Irsee Monastery, Bavaria, Germany.

The article EAM Patterns: Best Practices for Enterprise Architecture Management has been published in the Architecture and Governance (A&G) magazine. In this article the author team (Sabine Buckl, Alexander Ernst, Christian M. Schweda) emphasize on the difficulties connected to establishing an enterprise-specific EAM approach. As a possible solution, they propose to EAM patterns as documented in EAM Pattern Catalog wiki.

The article A Pattern-based Approach to Quantitative Enterprise Architecture Analysis has been accepted for publication at the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2009). This article is a joint effort of authors from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, the Technische Universität Berlin, and sebis. The author team (S.Buckl, U. Franke, O.Holschke, F.Matthes, C.M.Schweda, T.Sommestad, J.Ullberg) discuss an approach to use EAM pattern, especially information model pattern, together with qualitative annotations for dependencies between properties to derive a quantitative schema for performing EA analyses.