Ecosystems are an important aspect of today's software business, and can be beneficial to companies that can create and organize such ecosystems around their products. Unfortunately, creating such ecosystems is no...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319195933;9783319195926
Ecosystems are an important aspect of today's software business, and can be beneficial to companies that can create and organize such ecosystems around their products. Unfortunately, creating such ecosystems is not an easy task. The value blueprint is a tool created by Adner, that allows a company to identify the different types of risks to be faced during the establishment of an ecosystem. In this paper we describe a case study conducted to assess the value blueprint as an effective tool to help in the design of new ecosystems. This case study is based on data about the Apple Watch. We report our evaluation of the value blueprint tool and provide recommendations for practitioners interested in establishing their own ecosystems and researchers interested in the design of ecosystems.
Independent software vendors need to grow beyond their domestic markets. Software producing organizations are faced with a great number of options and opportunities on how they choose to conduct internationalization. ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319195933;9783319195926
Independent software vendors need to grow beyond their domestic markets. Software producing organizations are faced with a great number of options and opportunities on how they choose to conduct internationalization. Interestingly, efforts conducted have a high failure rate and software companies rarely succeed at first. In this paper we present a systematic mapping study and the results of 20 interviews with CEOs in the Dutch software sector. This study highlights the most important decisions made during the process of internationalization: the drivers, the process planning, market selection, and the followed market entry strategy. The choices available to the key decision makers in the right market selection and entry strategy are most strongly influenced and limited by the product architecture, characteristics of the product and company, and the level of internationalization experience located within the independent software company. The findings from this research support decision making in internationalization projects by software firms and policy makers in finding support strategies for export missions.
Alignments provide a robust approach for conformance checking, which has been largely applied in various contexts such as auditing and performance analysis. Alignment-based conformance checking techniques pinpoint the...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319272436
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319272436;9783319272429
Alignments provide a robust approach for conformance checking, which has been largely applied in various contexts such as auditing and performance analysis. Alignment-based conformance checking techniques pinpoint the deviations causing nonconformity based on a cost function. However, such a cost function is often manually defined on the basis of human judgment and thus error-prone, leading to alignments that do not provide accurate explanations of nonconformity. This paper proposes an approach to automatically define the cost function based on information extracted from the past process executions. The cost function only relies on objective factors and thus enables the construction of probable alignments, i.e. alignments that provide probable explanations of nonconformity. Our approach has been implemented in ProM and evaluated using both synthetic and real-life data.
Software startups are newly created companies designed to grow fast. The uncertainty of new markets and development of cutting-edge technologies pose challenges different from those faced by more mature companies. In ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319186122;9783319186115
Software startups are newly created companies designed to grow fast. The uncertainty of new markets and development of cutting-edge technologies pose challenges different from those faced by more mature companies. In this study, we focus on exploring the key challenges that early-stage software startups have to cope with from idea conceptualization to the first time to market. To investigate the key challenges, we used a mixed-method research approach which includes both a large-scale survey of 5389 responses and an in-depth multiple-case study. The initial findings reveal that thriving in technology uncertainty and acquiring the first paying customer are among the top challenges, perceived and experienced by early-stage software startups. Our study implies deeper issues that early-stage software startups need to address effectively in validating the problem-solution fit.
The benefits and barriers that software development companies face when moving beyond agile development practices are identified in a multiple-case study in five Finnish companies. The practices that companies need to...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319195933;9783319195926
The benefits and barriers that software development companies face when moving beyond agile development practices are identified in a multiple-case study in five Finnish companies. The practices that companies need to adopt when moving towards innovation experiment systems are recognised. The background of the study is the Stairway to Heaven (StH) model that describes the path that many software development companies take when advancing their development practices. The development practices in each case are investigated and analysed in relation to the StH model. At first the results of the analysis strengthened the validity of the StH model as a path taken by software development companies to advance their development practices. Based on the findings, the StH model was extended with a set of additional practices and their adoption levels for each step of the model. The extended model was validated in five case companies.
The paper describes the processes of forensic laboratory and its process-oriented problems. The main goal of this paper is to develop a new process framework for managing and optimization of the operation of the digit...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319243665;9783319243658
The paper describes the processes of forensic laboratory and its process-oriented problems. The main goal of this paper is to develop a new process framework for managing and optimization of the operation of the digital forensics laboratory. Based on the interviews with managers and experts the new process model is proposed and a compared with widely used model of Beebe and Clark. SIPOC method and flowchart diagrams are used for visualization of the new process model. Each phase of the forensics laboratory process is elaborated into separate flowchart diagrams. New proposed process framework includes activities connected to business aspect of the process and interaction with the customer not included in Beebe's and Clark's model. The new proposed model can be used as an input for a more detailed general process map of digital forensic laboratory.
In complex organizations business Processes tends to exist in different variants that typically share objectives and part of their structure. In recent years it has been recognized that the explicit modeling of variab...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319192437;9783319192420
In complex organizations business Processes tends to exist in different variants that typically share objectives and part of their structure. In recent years it has been recognized that the explicit modeling of variability can brings important benefits to organizations that can more easily reflect on their behavior and more efficiently structure their activities and processes. Particularly interesting in this respect is the situation of the Public Administration that delivers the same service using many different and replicated processes. The management of such complexity ask for methods explicitly supporting the modeling of variability aspects for business Processes. In this paper we present a novel notation to describe variability of business Processes and an approach to successively derive process variants. The notation takes inspiration from feature modeling approaches and has been implemented in a real tool using the ADOxx platform. The notation, and the corresponding approach, seems particularly suitable for the Public Administration context, and it has been actually experimented in a complex real scenario.
The goal of the present paper is to introduce a new model for estimating business function recovery complexity in order to predict reasonable recovery timeframes in case of an unexpected information system failure. Th...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319192970;9783319192963
The goal of the present paper is to introduce a new model for estimating business function recovery complexity in order to predict reasonable recovery timeframes in case of an unexpected information system failure. The method has its roots in the Use Case Points approach, which is a broadly tested tool for software complexity estimation. The current paper illustrates the pure theoretical form of the new model as well as the mapping between software complexity and business function recovery complexity. The method includes 3 categories of factors which affect the recovery procedure and are weighted according to the Rank Order Centroid (ROC) approach of assigning weights. The method is entitled business Continuity Points. The idea behind the development of the new method is the establishment of a standard approach for implementing efficient time management regarding business function recovery. The estimated recovery time depends on the impact of technical, environmental and unexpected factors. Each function's Recovery Time should be compared with the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Maximum Accepted Outage (MAO) values as they are proposed by business continuity and IT experts.
This position paper defends the idea that the development of the Web to its full potential requires addressing the challenge of massive multidisciplinarity.
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319270302;9783319270296
This position paper defends the idea that the development of the Web to its full potential requires addressing the challenge of massive multidisciplinarity.
The increase in large biomedical data objects stored in long term archives that continuously need to be processed and analyzed requires new storage paradigms. We propose expanding the storage system from only storing ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319158952;9783319158945
The increase in large biomedical data objects stored in long term archives that continuously need to be processed and analyzed requires new storage paradigms. We propose expanding the storage system from only storing biomedical data to directly producing value from the data by executing computational modules - storlets - close to where the data is stored. This paper describes the Storlet Engine, an engine to support computations in secure sandboxes within the storage system. We describe its architecture and security model as well as the programming model for storlets. We experimented with several data sets and storlets including de-identification storlet to de-identify sensitive medical records, image transformation storlet to transform images to sustainable formats, and various medical imaging analytics storlets to study pathology images. We also provide a performance study of the Storlet Engine prototype for OpenStack Swift object storage.
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