Sebis Research News

The following Enterprise Architecture (EA) articles have been accepted for publication and presentation at the poster of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2010 Forum):

• In the tool-demonstration article A Generative Approach for Creating Stakeholder-specific Enterprise Architecture Views the author team (S.Buckl, F.Matthes, and C.M.Schweda) shows how model-to-model transformations can be used to generate stakeholder-specific visualizations of EAs. The exposition of the transformation approach is further complemented with some insights into the prototypic implementation thereof in an eclipse-based tool.
• In the visionary article Tool-based Support for Organization-specific Enterprise Architecture Management the author team (S.Buckl, T.Dierl, F.Matthes, and C.M.Schweda) outline a method for configuring an organization-specific EA management function from best-practice building blocks. In detail, the challenges of integrating best practice method fragments and modeling languages into a comprehensive description of a management function are discussed and ideas for coping with these challenges are sketched.
• In the visionary article Lightweight Approach for Enterprise Architecture Modeling and Documentation the author team (S.Buckl, F.Matthes, C.Neubert, and C.M.Schweda) outline how wiki-based templating and tagging mechanisms can be used to document an EA. Complementing the bottom-up documentation approach, the article further sketches, how the wiki-based documentation can serve as basis for collaborative ontology engineering in the context of EA management.

The article A Meta-Language for EA Information Modeling - State-of-the-art and Requirements Elicitation has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 15th International Conference on Exploring Modelling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD 2010). In the article the author team (S. Buckl, F. Matthes and C.M. Schweda) provides an overview on the meta-languages that are used for describing state-of-the-art EA information models. Based on the findings of the analysis, the authors elicit a set of requirements that a meta-language should fulfill.

The article A formal approach to Architectural Descriptions - Refining the ISO Standard 42010 has been accepted for publication and presentation at CIAO 2010. In the article, the author team (S. Buckl, S. Krell and C.M. Schweda) provide a formal framework for discussing on architectural descriptions based on the conceptualizations as provided by the ISO Standard 42010.

Christian M. Schweda presented the article Interrelating Concerns in EA Documentation – Towards a Conceptual Framework of Relationships at PEAM 2010 in Paderborn.