The goal of this position paper is to introduce the research topics in engineering and the motivations for the application of semantic technologies. A group called Ontology Based Engineering - OBE has been created by ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319215457
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319215457;9783319215440
The goal of this position paper is to introduce the research topics in engineering and the motivations for the application of semantic technologies. A group called Ontology Based Engineering - OBE has been created by the engineering community to share experiences in this field and the various challenges faced in using ontologies and related tools. The OBE groups aims at creating a dialog with the ontology specialists by sharing the research challenges and problems in ontology application.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Asia Pacific Conference on business Process Management held in Busan, South Korea, in June ***, 37 contributions from ten countries were submitted. After each submiss...
ISBN:
(数字)9783319195094
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319195087;9783319195094
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Asia Pacific Conference on business Process Management held in Busan, South Korea, in June ***, 37 contributions from ten countries were submitted. After each submission was reviewed by at least three Program Committee members, 12 full and two short papers were accepted for publication in this volume. These papers cover various topics and are categorized under four main research focuses in BPM: advancement in workflow technologies, resources allocation strategies, process mining, and emerging topics in BPM.
In this paper we analyze frameworks for mobile cross-platform development according to their influence on energy consumed by the developed applications. We consider the use of different smartphones sensors, e.g., GPS,...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319270302;9783319270296
In this paper we analyze frameworks for mobile cross-platform development according to their influence on energy consumed by the developed applications. We consider the use of different smartphones sensors, e.g., GPS, accelerometer, etc., and features, e.g., acquiring video or audio from the environment. In particular, we have studied how the amount of required energy for the same operation changes according to the used framework. We use an hardware and software tool to measure energy consumed by the applications developed natively, as a web application or using two frameworks, Titanium and PhoneGap. Our experiments have shown that frameworks have a significant impact on energy consumption which greatly increases compared to an equal native application. Moreover, the amount of consumed energy is not the same for all frameworks.
This paper presents a business process management (BPM) system aimed at knowledge-based service organizations. The core activity of these organizations consists on the delivery of high-valued services tailored to each...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319149806
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319149806;9783319149790
This paper presents a business process management (BPM) system aimed at knowledge-based service organizations. The core activity of these organizations consists on the delivery of high-valued services tailored to each customer. When compared to product-based organizations, service organizations have more dynamic and diversified business portfolios and business processes, due to the need to adapt to evolving customer needs. The efficiency of business process management (BPM) solutions is widely recognised as far as high volume standardized processes are concerned, but the unsuitability of these systems to handle customizable service requests is also widely acknowledged. With this in mind, a new BPM platform, hereafter referred to as the soBPM platform, was designed and deployed. This platform is intended to offer a higher degree of flexibility, both at process design-time and process run-time. The platform implements a soft-automation process management approach that will be discussed in the first part of the paper. Then, the deployment of the platform at the Shared Service Center of a large University will be presented.
Multi-sourcing has emerged as an important pushing force on the global growth of ITO contracts. However, most of our understanding in various aspects of ITO still derives from dyadic client-vendor relationships. With ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319267395
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319267395;9783319267388
Multi-sourcing has emerged as an important pushing force on the global growth of ITO contracts. However, most of our understanding in various aspects of ITO still derives from dyadic client-vendor relationships. With a single case study on the ITO governance among a client and its two suppliers, I strive to increase the understanding on governance in the specific context of multi-sourcing. Departing from the theoretical framework aligning governance mechanism and governance structures, the case analysis reveals the diverging perception and practice of governance, which have caused the tension and conflicts among the multi-sourcing participants. With implications on both theory and practice, the findings shed lights on the understanding of conflicts and restructuring of supplier relationships in multi-sourcing situation.
To help developers during the Scrum planning poker, in our previous work we ran a case study on a Moonlight Scrum process to understand if it is possible to introduce functional size metrics to improve estimation accu...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319186122;9783319186115
To help developers during the Scrum planning poker, in our previous work we ran a case study on a Moonlight Scrum process to understand if it is possible to introduce functional size metrics to improve estimation accuracy and to measure the accuracy of expert-based estimation. The results of this original study showed that expert-based estimations are more accurate than those obtained by means of models, calculated with functional size measures. To validate the results and to extend them to plain Scrum processes, we replicated the original study twice, applying an exact replication to two plain Scrum development processes. The results of this replicated study show that the accuracy of the effort estimated by the developers is very accurate and higher than that obtained through functional size measures. In particular, SiFP and IFPUG Function Points, have low predictive power and are thus not help to improve the estimation accuracy in Scrum.
Workarounds have existed in software from the very beginning. Being a formalized collection of knowledge rather than a physical artifact, software allows shortcuts in its development process. The shortcuts serve vario...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319195933;9783319195926
Workarounds have existed in software from the very beginning. Being a formalized collection of knowledge rather than a physical artifact, software allows shortcuts in its development process. The shortcuts serve various purposes, like releasing a product to the market faster or postponing the solution of a problem. In this article, we present the findings of an investigation of workarounds in two software companies. Our analysis reveals that the decisions to take a workaround to resolve a technical issue are often intentional and forced by time-to-market requirements. However, the stakeholders are not always familiar with the negative consequences of taking workarounds, like additional hours, costs, and poor quality. We argue that the decision to take a workaround is often made by business managers who see short-term benefits only while developers have to deal with negative consequences in long-term.
Change requests are inevitable in every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and responding to a change request without jeopardizing the project success remains a challenge for software developers/mana...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319242859
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319242859;9783319242842
Change requests are inevitable in every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and responding to a change request without jeopardizing the project success remains a challenge for software developers/managers. Expressing functional changes in terms of COSMIC Function Point units can be helpful in identifying changes leading to a potential impact on the software functional size;this latter can be used as a means to plan the project activities. This paper proposes to analyze the impact of functional changes on the size of UML activity diagrams, one artifact type produced early in the SDLC. The proposed analysis handles directly as well as indirectly affected elements in both modelling levels of the activity diagrams.
Enterprises operate in dynamically changing environments that have an influence on both business and IT areas. Capabilities have been proposed as instruments to align business and IT in such environments. One aim of e...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319258973;9783319258966
Enterprises operate in dynamically changing environments that have an influence on both business and IT areas. Capabilities have been proposed as instruments to align business and IT in such environments. One aim of enterprise modelling is a better communication between the stakeholders of an enterprise at various levels. Thus, the alignment can be facilitated by the exploitation of enterprise models as an abstraction instrument. In this respective the paper analyses the methods for capability design and development from the enterprise modelling perspective by conducting a mapping study, i.e. the level of methodological support for capability modelling is investigated. For this purpose 112 journals and 24 conference proceedings were analysed. The most important findings are that the research in capability design (i) adopts empirical research, mostly in form of case studies and surveys (ii) is mainly motivated by Resource Based View (RBV) and changing environments (iii) proposes development approaches and frameworks as solution artefacts, (iv) lately receives attention in the information Systems Development & Tools of MIS subject classification lately, (v) provides a scarce methodological support that is mostly represented as procedures and most importantly (vi) only to some extent exploit enterprise models that could enhance stakeholder communication at various abstraction levels.
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