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Prof. Manfred Jeusfeld, Introduced by Prof. Karagiannis.

          Manfred Jeusfeld studied computer science from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Technology Aachen (RWTH), Germany. In 1992 he received his Doctoral degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Passau. In 1992 he returned to the RWTH Aachen as a senior researcher of the Information Systems Institute (Informatik V). He is the principal developer of the ConceptBase system (http://conceptbase.cc), which is now used by more than a thousand institutes and companies world-wide for designing information systems and meta-modelling. From 1997 to 2013, he was assistant professor in the department Information Management (IM) of the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Since 2013 he is lector at the Department of Information Technology, University of Skövde, Sweden. His research covers cooperative conceptual modelling, data warehouse quality management, meta-modelling, method engineering, and repository systems. He is associate information director for ACM SIGMOD and the founder of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, a publication service for open-access proceedings of scientific workshops and conferences.

Constraints between modelling perspectives

Dr. Manfred Jeusfeld, University of Skövde, Sweden

Abstract

Enterprise models span all levels and perspectives of objects relevant to an enterprise, such as goal models, process models, data models, product models, network structures, interfaces, and so forth. Such models must be kept consistent with each other. The lecture proposes a constraint language that allows to formulate rules at an abstraction level that facilitates their automated re-use. We also discuss the mechanism that makes the elements of heterogeneous modelling languages related to each other and how we can use this view to plan the links between such modelling languages. The technique is applied to existing enterprise modelling approaches such as 4EM and Archimate to demonstrate the required effort. Practical examples and exercises use the ConceptBase meta-modelling system.

Prof. Bernhard Rumpe

Bernhard Rumpe is teaching Software Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. Earlier he had positions at INRIA/ IRISA, Rennes, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, TU Braunschweig, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and TU Munich. His main interests are rigorous and practical software and system development methods. This includes model-engineering based on UML-like notations and domain specific languages, evolution, model-based testing, software architecture and especially the methodical and technical implications of their use in industry. He has contributed to formal methods as well as the UML standardisation. He is author and editor of nine books and Editor-in-Chief of the Springer International Journal on Software and Systems Modelling (www.sosym.org).

Compositional Modelling Language Development

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Abstract

We examine the current state and problems of modelling enterprises as well as software systems and discuss a number of approaches to tackle those. In particular, we discuss how to make use of models in large development projects, where a set of heterogeneous models of different languages needs is developed and needs to fit together, e.g. describing high-level structures of the organisation, business processes, data structures, automatically executable functions, constraints and so on. A model based development process (both with UML as well as a domain specific modelling language (DSML)) heavily relies on modelling core parts individually and composing those through generators to early and repeatedly cut code and tests from these models. We discuss in detail compositionality on models and heterogeneous modelling languages and how it supports agile evolution of such infrastructures.

Prof. Frank Wolff

Prof. Dr. Frank Wolff is a professor of Information Systems at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim since August 2009. He focuses on Management of large scale organisational and IT Modelling. He completed his PhD studies in 2008 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Before that he studied Economics and Business Administration at the University of Witten/Herdecke. He holds seminars and lecturers at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at the University of Vienna.

Economic Assessment of Enterprise Modelling in Large Organisations with Evaluation Chains

Prof. Dr. Frank Wolff, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim, Germany

Abstract

To support management with essential information enterprise models are reckoned almost indispensable. However, the creation and maintenance of an encompassing enterprise model has proven to be a challenging task. Fundamental are the diversity of influential factors and the long time period of its creation and usage. Therefore, a dedicated framework to control enterprise modelling has been developed based on the concept of evaluation chains. The lecture will present the foundations of the framework, the technical support with an ADOxx implementation and some example cases.

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Prof. Andrea Polini

Andrea Polini (M) got his PhD from Scuola Superiore „Sant‘Anna“ in Pisa - Italy. His research interests are mainly in the area of Software Engineering, in particular Software Testing, and in Business Process Modelling and verification. Andrea has got a quite strong experience in research within EU projects. He currently is Scientific Leader of the Learn PAd EU project, and he participated as research member to the FP6 STREP Telcert project, to the FP6 Plastic project, to the FP7 IP TAS3 project. He was WP co-leader in the FP7 IP CHOReOS project, for which he was also responsible for the UNICAM unit. Andrea regularly reviews papers for IEEE-TSE, ACM-TOSEM, SOSYM, STVR. He has been reviewer for ICSE 2015, AST11-16, PESOS12-15, ViDaS10, EGOVIS12-13-14-15-16, ICST10-12, WebTest09, A-MOST08, TAP08, SOQUA07, ICSEA06, CD2005 and he organised events associated to relevant conferences in the Software Engineering domain, such as QASBA11-13, ARAMIS08, IW-SOSwE07, IW-SOSwE06, and WS-MaTe 06.

Model-based Learning: The Learn PAD Way

Prof. Dr. Andrea Polini, University of Camerino, Italy

Abstract

The talk will illustrate a model-based and collaborative approach to learning in complex organisations. In organisations for which the activities are driven by complex process models workers are nowadays challenged to learn their daily activities in short time frames. Traditional approaches to learning requires then to be complemented with innovative solutions. In the talk the solution foreseen and developed by the EU project Learn PAd will be presented. The solution required the definition of seven model kinds including weavings permitting to relate concepts residing on different model kinds. The models are then used to automatically derive a knowledge based and collaborative infrastructure that will permit to organise knowledge according to the models itselves.