Using Ontologies to Integrate Multiple Enterprise Architecture Domains

Antunes, Gonçalo; Caetano, Artur; Bakhshandeh, Marzieh; Mayer, Rudolf; Borbinha, José

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41687-3_8

Cited by 15 publications

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“…As architects provides blueprints for (re-)designing structures, enterprise architects utilize Enterprise Architecture (EA) modeling languages for (re-)designing and transformation of organizations (Antunes et al, 2013;Jnr et al, 2020). EA is a component of IS theories that can be employed to design digital platform landscape suitable for urban operations (Plataniotis et al, 2014).…”

Section: Overview Of Enterprise Architecture Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…ArchiMate has lately become the standard EAF tool for describing and visualizing urban transformation encompassing different components, their dependencies and their relations (Pittl and Bork, 2017). ArchiMate provides views on heterogeneous domains, such as stakeholders, business processes, application, data and technological infrastructure (Antunes et al, 2013;Bock and Frank, 2016). In this article, ArchiMate is employed as a modeling language as it aids in modeling urban transformation beyond the level of ICT experts and system developers to the level of municipality administrators and policy makers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modeling pervasive platforms and digital services for smart urban transformation using an enterprise architecture framework

Anthony

Petersen

Helfert

et al. 2021

ITP

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PurposeIn smart cities pervasive systems are deployed by enterprises and stakeholders in municipalities to provide digital services to citizens. But cities are faced with the challenge of achieving system pluggability, mainly service integration due to numerous actors and systems needed for smart urban transformation. Hence, there is need to employ a comprehensive and holistic approach to help achieve service integration of pervasive platforms. Therefore, this study presents an Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) to support smart urban transformation.Design/methodology/approachIn this study the design science research methodology is adopted based on a multi-case studies of two organizations and data is collected using semi-structured interview from an organizations and municipality in Norway to validate how service integration can be achieved by the developed EAF to address pluggability challenges faced in urban environment.FindingsFindings suggest that the presented EAF provides the structure to manage changes and maintain urban transformation and aims to align the business with the underlying information systems from the perspective of the stakeholders. Additionally, findings from the case studies modelled in ArchiMate language depict how service integration of different pervasive platforms provide digital services for smart urban transformation.Research limitations/implicationsThis research only employed semi-structured interviews to validate service integration of digital platforms, other identified dimensions of pluggability were not fully addressed in this study.Practical implicationsFindings from the case studies provides insights on how pervasive platforms can be integrated to achieve a pluggable digital service from different stakeholders and data sources in practice. The developed EAF presented in this study provide a model that supports collection and exchange of data from different data sources in smart urban environment to enable the provision and consumption of digital services.Social implicationsThe developed EAF aids system pluggability of actors and systems in providing digital service such as smart urban transformation that contributes to sustainable use of electric mobility in cities.Originality/valueAs cities increasingly deploy pervasive platforms to support urban innovation, researchers are seeking to explore how these platforms shape urban transformation. Presently, prior studies do not offer important insights into pervasive platform management from urban perspective. Against this backdrop, this study employs the information systems perspective of digital platforms literature roots in software development and physical product development to depict how the EAF can be employed to describe specific cases that integrate different pervasive platforms deployed by different stakeholders communicating to co-create collective digital services to citizens.

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Section: Overview Of Enterprise Architecture Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Modeling pervasive platforms and digital services for smart urban transformation using an enterprise architecture framework

Anthony

Petersen

Helfert

et al. 2021

ITP

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“…A Context Model has been designed and developed in the project [1] that is meant to be populated with the complete context of the business process. It acts as a single data source in the TIMBUS solution for carrying out the risk management, reasoning and the digital preservation process.…”

Section: Integration In Timbus Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluation of the Dynamic Construct Competition Miner for an eHealth System

Redlich

Galushka²,

Molka³

et al. 2015

Business Information Systems

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Abstract. Business processes of some domains are highly dynamic and increasingly complex due to their dependencies on a multitude of services provided by various providers. The quality of services directly impacts the business process's efficiency. A first prerequisite for any optimization initiative requires a better understanding of the deployed business processes. However, the business processes are either not documented at all or are only poorly documented. Since the actual behaviour of the business processes and underlying services can change over time it is required to detect the dynamically changing behaviour in order to carry out correct analyses. This paper presents and evaluates the integration of the Dynamic Construct Competition Miner (DCCM) as process monitor in the TIMBUS architecture. The DCCM discovers business processes and recognizes changes directly from an event stream at run-time. The evaluation is carried out in the context of an industrial use-case from the eHealth domain. We will describe the key aspects of the use-case and the DCCM as well as present the relevant evaluation results.

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“…27 Several domain ontologies for business have been developed. Their main purposes are knowledge exchange 28 and knowledge management covering and bridging 29 several subdomains of business (e.g., business plans and other strategies, [30][31][32][33][34][35][36] operations, 37,38 finance, 39 accounting 40,41 ), and auxiliary disciplines (e.g., information management, 42,43 requirements engineering, 44,45 information systems design, 46 and the development of the semantic web 47 ).…”

Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%