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ABSTRACT: The "motivation domain" of an Enterprise Architecture addresses objectives in a broad scope ranging from high-level statements expressing the goals of an enterprise to declarations of requirements on business processes, services and systems. An important development regarding the incorporation of the motivation domain in a comprehensive Enterprise Architecture modeling language is the upcoming Motivational Extension to ArchiMate (based on the ARMOR language). The extension proposes the inclusion of concepts such as concerns, assessments, goals, principles and requirements to ArchiMate. We believe that careful definition of the semantics of these concepts is required, especially when considering that the motivation domain addresses subjective aspects of the enterprise. To address that, this paper focuses on an ontology-based semantics for the Motivation Extension. We interpret the concepts by using the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) as a semantic domain, and, as a result, propose well-founded recommendations for improvements of the extension.
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC), 2011 15th IEEE International; 10/2011
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ABSTRACT: The “goal domain” addresses objectives in a broad scope ranging from high-level statements expressing the vision and mission of an organization (or community) to declarations of the results that must be achieved by business process execution. This paper reviews the support for the goal domain in ISO RM-ODP. We analyze the conceptualization for goals (objectives) in the reference model's Enterprise Viewpoint using a fragment of the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) that deals with some aspects of social reality and intentionality. The interpretation of the RM-ODP concepts in terms of this foundation may help to provide a sound underpinning for these concepts and support the identification of possible extensions of the reference model.
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010 14th IEEE International; 11/2010
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ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the issue of ontological interpretation for the ARIS organization modeling language with the following contributions: (i) providing real-world semantics to the primitives of the language by using the UFO foundational ontology as a semantic domain, (ii) the identification of inappropriate elements of the language, using a systematic ontology-based analysis approach, and (iii) recommendations for improvements of the language to resolve the issues identified.
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops (EDOCW), 2010 14th IEEE International; 11/2010
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ABSTRACT: This paper reports a study in which business process modelling was regarded as a useful tool for requirements engineering. We have used business process models as a starting point to derive alternative sets of requirements for a process-oriented system. These alternative sets capture different decisions regarding the intended ldquolevel of automationrdquo for the various activities in a business process. The approach is demonstrated in a case study which consists of the development of a real system to manage processes in a human resources (HR) department of a large organization. We use a requirements specification that was previously obtained through what we characterize as a ldquoconventionalrdquo requirements engineering technique and we compare it with the requirements specifications derived from the business process model. We discuss the impact of the use of business process models in the completeness, correctness, consistency and traceability of requirements in the case study.
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, 2009. EDOCW 2009. 13th; 10/2009
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ABSTRACT: In this paper, we attempt to provide a semantic foundation for the role-related concepts in the RM-ODP. We believe that some theories of conceptual modelling may help us to provide a well-founded underpinning for these concepts, and to harmonize competing proposals for them. As a starting point of our effort, we study the definitions of Genilloud and Wegmann, and the proposed definition in the working document for the amendment of the standard as contributed by Linington.
EDOC Conference Workshop, 2007. EDOC '07. Eleventh International IEEE; 11/2007
