Sebis Research News

The article Modeling the supply and demand of architectural information on enterprise level  has been accepted for publication at EDOC 2011. The author team (Sabine Buckl, Andreas Gehlert, Florian Matthes, Christopher Schulz and Christian M. Schweda) discusses the need to focus EA management endeavors in general and the corresponding documentation activities, in particular, on relevant parts of the enterprise. This need is operationalized by a modeling technique to describe the information demands of EA stakeholders. This technique is further applied to make explicit the information supply by different actors in the enterprise. A case study exemplifies the applicability of the techniques and indicates on organizational structures as well as dependencies that can be used for motivating EA actors.

The article A meta-language for enterprise architecture analysis has been accepted for publication at EMMSAD2011.This article results from a joint work of KTH Stockholm and Technische Universität München. The author team (Sabine Buckl, Markus Buschle, Pontus Johnson, Florian Matthes, and Christian M. Schweda) discusses the requirements for a meta-language that supports EA analysis has to fulfill and outline how OMG's MetaObjectFacility (MOF) can be enhanced to satisfy these requirements.

The article Socio-technic Dependency and Rationale Models for the Enterprise Architecture Management Function has been accepted for publication at ONTOSE 2011. In the article the author team (Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes, and Christian M. Schweda) take a system-perspective on the enterprise and its architecture. Therefore, they combine technical cause-effect modeling with i*-based modeling of intentional dependencies between the stakeholders and actors of certain EA parts. The resulting intertwined set of dependencies provides a basis for model-based control and governance structures.

The article A method to develop EA modeling languages using practice-proven solutions has been accepted for publication at the EEWC 2011. In the article the author team (Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes, and Christian M. Schweda) introduce the idea of language building blocks for defining the syntax, the semantics, and the notation of EA modeling languages. These building blocks are derived from practice-proven solutions and are complemented by techniques to facilitate their consistent integration.

The article Modeling Enterprise Architecture Transformations has been accepted for publication at the IWEI 2011. In the article the author team (Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes, Ivan Monahov, and Christian M. Schweda) discuss different EA planning perspectives, for which numerous models and modeling techniques have been developed and examined over the last few years. The paper presents ways in which the different perspectives can be modeled as add-ons for EA models and the ways they interrelate.