We address the existing gaps between business process models, enterprise architecture (EA) models and, external regulations that hinder completeness and lawfulness of business process models. As a solution we propose a high-level architecture for business process knowledge management that bridges the identified gaps. We use de-facto industry standards for modelling business processes and EA-BPMN and ArchiMate. We propose to use Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) model as a theoretical foundation for storing business process knowledge represented in BPMN and ArchiMate models and storing elements that address lawfulness of the models. BWW model provides a framework for systematically storing internally maintained process knowledge (models) and externally maintained knowledge (regulations), and supporting completeness and lawfulness of the models. Thus, the main contributions of our approach is supporting completeness and lawfulness of business process models and supporting the creation of information services to increase efficiency in the business process modelling context.
Abstract. In an highly dynamic social and business environment time becomes one of the most treasured recourses of companies and individuals. However, there are no many research works devoted to explicit analysis of time issues. Therefore, despite of a large number of enterprise and business process representation and analysis tools, it is still impossible to address time to full extent in systems modeling and analysis. This paper proposes linkage between enterprise architecture, process, and time models to promote development of methods for managing time issues in systems development, maintenance and change management. The linkage roots in Bunge's systems ontology and concerns time ontology edited by Hobbs and Pan. Keywords: Upper ontology · Enterprise architecture · Business process · Time ontology IntroductionTime is one of the most treasured resources in highly dynamic business environment. Time also becomes an important issue in development of different information technology solutions, because their impact on users' time shall be considered. For instance, by development of information systems for administrative purposes the time of administration is saved, however the time of other employees might be misused to such an extent that the new administrative information system causes losses instead of benefits in the company in terms of financial resources, job satisfaction, and ability to serve the customers of the company. On the other hand, often the business is run on the global scale and companies from different time zones have to cooperate in providing services and products to their customers. This means that their business process management systems must be supported by information technology solutions that can easily calculate process parameters taking into consideration time zone differences with respect to the current geographical location of the companies and temporal locations of their employees. We assume that, to ensure good possibility to analyze time issues, it is necessary to develop the following two approaches:• The approach how to model time as one of the sub-models of enterprise architecture.• The approach how to relate time model to other models of the enterprise architecture, especially to the business process model.
In enterprises it is important to control whether unlawful events occur or business objects are in unlawful states during business process execution. Existing modelling methods such as BPMN and ArchiMate do not to a full extent support description of conceivable and lawful state and event spaces that can affect execution of the process. This gap jeopardizes compliance of business process models with external and internal regulations. This paper proposes a theoretical solution for closing the gap between business process and enterprise architecture models and conceivable and lawful state and event spaces by using BWW model. BWW model is a generic framework for conceptualization of information system objects.
-The situation when the number of the students and the popularity of the engineering education in general and IT education in particular is not increasing dramatically due to the fact that there exists an opinion that engineering education is complex and time-consuming from one side and that the graduates are not sufficiently prepared for the industry from another, requires the University to perform a series of actions that can improve the current situation. One of the areas for improvement is the quality of the study programs in the sense of their suitability to 'customers', namely Students and Industry. Previous research shows that the knowledge requirements monitoring system and the processes behind it can improve the quality of the study programs, e.g. the results of the Value Network Analysis demonstrate that the Monitoring System can give additional value to both the University and the Industry. Developing a monitoring system prototype requires narrowing the gap between industry and university and introduces new ways of industry-university cooperation.
Nowadays, graduates have a wide range of opportunities when they are thinking about their further education and it is difficult to choose whether it would be better to go one way or another. One of the most important drivers for the final decision is whether the study program chosen can lead to a good and interesting job in the future. That means that Universities have to reflect the answer to this question in the description of the study programs, but in order to do this they have to know what the main requirements from the Industry are. This paper, building upon the previous research showing that a knowledge requirements monitoring system and the processes behind it can improve the quality of study programs, focuses on application of the monitoring system for extracting and representing industrial requirements using skill frameworks and direct and indirect course and topic rating systems.
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