Visual Analysis of Enterprise Models

Naranjo, David; Sánchez, Mario E.; Villalobos, Jorge

doi:10.1109/edocw.2012.13

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“…Apart from the PoN's growing recognition in the conceptual modeling (language) literature, its influence has spread to other areas of research, such as conversation visualization [12], software interface design [13], modeldriven development of statistical survey services [14], and analysis of musical composition [15]. Work has also been conducted to specialize it for use in analysis frameworks for specific domains, such as Enterprise Architecture [16]. This is not to say that the PoN has been universally adopted, as some authors have found its use unnecessary [17], while others found that applying parts of it may suffice [18] or even argue that their own proposed design principles, while in accordance with the PoN, are based on earlier sources and thus do not require its use (cf.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Applications of the Physics of Notations

Linden¹,

Hadar²

2019

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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The Physics of Notations (PoN) is a theory for the design of cognitively effective visual notations, emphasizing the need for design grounded in objective and verifiable rationale. Although increasingly applied, no systematic analysis of PoN applications has yet been performed to assess the theory's efficacy in practice. OBJECTIVES: Our primary objective was to assess the scope and verifiability of PoN applications. METHOD: We performed a systematic literature review (SLR) of peer-reviewed PoN applications. We analyzed what visual notations have been evaluated and designed using the PoN, for what reasons, to what degree applications consider requirements of their notation's users, and how verifiable these applications are. RESULTS: Seventy PoN applications were analyzed. We found major differences between applications evaluating existing notations and applications designing new notations. Particularly, in the case of new notations, we found that most applications adopted the PoN with little critical thought towards it, rarely considered its suitability for a particular context, and typically treated and discussed the PoN with few, if any, verifiable details and data. CONCLUSION: The results warrant consideration for those applying the PoN to do so carefully, and show the need for additional means to guide designers in systematically applying the PoN.

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Section: Background: the Physics Of Notationsmentioning

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A Systematic Literature Review of Applications of the Physics of Notations

Linden¹,

Hadar²

2019

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Representing enterprise architecture (EA) involves creating a holistic, multi-view representation of an enterprise [9,10]. During the course of an EA project, an EA team may construct multiple diagrams to express an EA model from different perspectives [11,12]. This EA model typically consists of a large number of model elements capturing various aspects of the enterprise.…”

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Diagramming Multi-Level Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

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2019

SN COMPUT. SCI.

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Today's enterprise architecture should incorporate high-level enterprise services that are considered as wrappers of business processes and ICT capabilities. This service-oriented enterprise model consists of a large number of model elements capturing various aspects of the enterprise in question, making any attempt to browse it too cumbersome. Enterprise architecture modeling, therefore, often resorts to a multi-view representation where views are focused and scoped. We define a visual modeling language and develop a supporting tool called SeamCAD that together lay the foundation for further multi-level enterprise modeling techniques. This article is dedicated to our tool realizing a notation schema and reinforcing a distinctive diagramming layout designed to visually capture the hierarchical containment in enterprise models. We demonstrate our real-life EA applications that were constructed thanks to SeamCAD. We report users' feedback on SeamCAD.

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“…In order to arrive to more powerful insights, we require a more comprehensive toolbox of automated analysis techniques that allows to combine and create new ones easily. Furthermore, given that views and reports offered by EA Management tools rarely offer the whole panorama of the architecture [7], it is critical to visualize the new facts introduced by these techniques, as well as navigate, interact and diagnose the model in order to discover anomalies in its structure [8].…”

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Towards a Unified and Modular Approach for Visual Analysis of Enterprise Models

Naranjo

Sánchez

Villalobos

2014

2014 IEEE 18th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops and Demonstrations

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From the point of view of an enterprise architect, the visual analysis of the structure of an Enterprise Model can provide powerful insights and facilitate various analysis tasks. However, analysis methods and visualizations that offer the most valuable results usually depend on the concepts found on the Enterprise Metamodel, and are subjected to a concrete EA modeling tool. In this paper we argue that many structural and domain-specific analysis methods can be automated, composed, and their results visualized in a modular manner. To achieve this, we describe the foundations of a flexible and configurable approach for EA Analysis that is based on components that encapsulate metamodelspecific analysis and visualization techniques, supported by a metamodel-independent platform. The approach is explained with ArchiMate by using a module, currently in development, which we call PRIMate. Benefits from this approach include the integration with existing modeling environments, the reuse of analysis and visualization capabilities in any metamodel, as well as an explicit, composite, and traceable visual analysis process.

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Visual Analysis of Enterprise Models

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

A Systematic Literature Review of Applications of the Physics of Notations

A Systematic Literature Review of Applications of the Physics of Notations

Diagramming Multi-Level Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Towards a Unified and Modular Approach for Visual Analysis of Enterprise Models

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