Antonia Albani

University of St.Gallen · Institute of Information Management

Smart meters are the backbone of modern electricity metering and an important enabler of reaching energy efficiency targets. The implementation of new metering infrastructure is, however, making little progress and is often focused on technical aspects only. Additionally, existing smart metering information systems do not yet exploit the possibilit...

For the design and engineering of enterprises, several methodologies are available that successfully address certain aspects of design problems in enterprises or certain domains. In real-world design problems it is essential to choose the right means to reach the desired ends. Often it is not apparent which methodology is best chosen in order to re...

Driven by the strong demand for reusable yet situational business solutions on the one side and the necessity to provide a stable, reliant foundation that allows to adapt the supporting information systems in a systematic way on the other side, the need for a closer link between relevant theories and successful practices for the design of enterpris...

The electricity domain is currently facing fundamental change on both, the production and the distribution side. In order to compete on this fast changing market, there is a high need for differentiation possibilities of the electricity suppliers as e.g., through new and innovative services. To set the right incentives to customers and offer them t...

Due to the integration of renewable energies, the electricity grid is confronted with new peak situations that are caused by the new power plants. Beside these threats new metering technologies combined with information systems enable new pricing options that were not affordable for retail customers before. This paper contributes to the field by co...

The contribution of this paper is twofold. We revisit the three-cycle procedural view of Design Science Research (DSR) as introduced by Hevner, and we propose a structuring mechanism for the DSR Knowledge Base (KB) and theproblem/context specification that supports our revisited DSR procedure. Regarding the first contribution, we argue that each de...

The electricity industry is currently confronted with regulatory and technological change that leads to fundamental transformation of the value propositions and innovation processes of enterprises. New services are one possibility to compete in the new market environment. This paper proposes a service development process for the electricity industr...

A century ago, Taylor published a landmark in the organisational sciences: his Principles of Scientific Management. Many researchers have elaborated on Taylors principles, or have been influenced otherwise. The authors of the current paper evaluate a century of enterprise development, and conclude that a paradigm shift is needed for dealing adequat...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Delft, The Netherlands, during May 7-8, 2012.EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with thes...

Kapitel 4 widmet sich der Zusammenfassung von eng zusammengehörenden Modelltypenzu BEN-Komponenten, um fu?r das BE Problemlösungsfragemente fu?rdie Analyse und Gestaltung von Geschäftslösungen zur Verfu?gung zu stellen. Dafu?rwerden zuerst die Zusammenhänge der in Kapitel 2 eingefu?hrten Modelltypenanalysiert und zu BEN-Komponenten zusammengefasst....

In recent years, the WSDL and UDDI standards arose as ad-hoc standards for the definition of service interfaces and service registries. However, even together these standards do not provide enough basis for a service consumer to get a full understanding of the behavior of a service. In practice this often leads to a serious mismatch between the pro...

In this paper, we propose an approach to transform models derived by applying the Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) into an exchangeable format. DEMO is based on a founded theory, the Ψ-theory, and satisfies the requirements to be a well defined domain modeling methodology. Having the DEMO models represented in an exchange...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the first Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC), held in Antwerp, Belgium, May 16-17, 2011. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises are facing in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share the belief that dealing with these challen...

For the development of enterprise information systems, the utilisation of a suitable methodology is essential, providing necessary methods and techniques for modelling the business domain and for designing the supporting information systems. Several methodologies exist and are widely applied in practice nowadays, but most of them lack a theoretical...

Based on rapidly changing market conditions and increasing pressure on cost and productivity, companies in different industries have started to concentrate on their core competencies and to decrease vertical range of manufacture. This resulted in an increasing dependency between the producing companies and their suppliers. Enterprise networks are f...

Purpose Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. In order to meet the requirements and challenges of participating in such alliances, companies must be able to cooperate effectively and efficiently. The purpose of this paper is to pr...

Based on rapidly changing market conditions and increasing pressure on cost and productivity, companies in different industries have started to concentrate on their core competencies and to decrease vertical range of manufacture. This resulted in an increasing dependency between the producing companies and their suppliers. Enterprise networks are f...

In the era of continuous changes in internal organizationalsettings and external business environments – such as new regulations and business opportunities – modern enterprises are subject to extensive research and study. For the understanding, design, and engineering of modern enterprises and theircomplexbusiness processes,thedisciplineofenterpris...

The competitiveness of value networks is highly dependent on the cooperation between business partners and the interoperability of their information systems. Innovations in information and communication technology (ICT), primarily the emergence of the Internet, offer possibilities to increase the interoperability of information systems and therefor...

Economists and business scientists have been debating about the 'service' notionfor more than two centuries [9]. Often, the definitions in business literature limitthe service notion to the delivery of immaterial goods. The adoptation of thenotion of 'service' by computer scientists and IT practitioners has been morerecent. In b...

The identification of business components, which together define a modular systems architecture, is a key task in todays component-based development approaches for the business domain. This paper describes the Business Component Identification (BCI) method which supports a systematic partitioning of a problem domain into business components. The me...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperation and Interoperability, Architecture and Ontology, CIAO!, and the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008 in Montpellier, France, in June 2008. The 13 papers presented here were carefully select...

The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is the fourth edition of an event at the “On The Move Federated Conferences” that provides a platform for researchers at the beginning of their career. Promising doctoral students are encouraged to showcase their work at an international forum, where they are provided with an opportunity to gain feedback and guid...

Based on rapidly changing market conditionsand increasing pressure on cost and productivity,companies in different industries have startedto concentrate on their core competencies andto decrease vertical range of manufacture. Thisresulted in an increasing dependency between theproducing companies and their suppliers. Enterprisenetworks are formed c...

Companies are more than ever participating in so-called value networks while being confronted with an increasing need for collaboration with their business partners. In order to better perform in such value networks information systems supporting not only the intra- but also the inter-enterprise business processes are necessary in order to enable a...

The direct banking business is characterized by integrated distribution channel politics and holistic sales approaches combined with multi-channel-management. Direct banks in Europe and especially in Germany are currently facing increasing market competition. The crucial factors for growth are product innovation, cost control and the flexibility to...

The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is the third edition of an event at the “On The Move Federated Conferences” that provides a platform for researchers at the beginning of their career. Promising doctoral students are encouraged to showcase their work on an international forum, where they are provided with an opportunity to gain feedback and guida...

This paper presents the definition of a setup process that has to be performed before an ad hoc inter-organizational collaboration can start. Within this process agreement on collaboration content can be achieved as well as an overall coordination protocol can be constructed which defines a chronological order of tasks out of single protocols that...

Combining third party software components to customer-individual application systems requires first, standardized specification techniques for describing the technical as well as the business-related aspects of the services provided and required by the corresponding software components and second, automated compatibility tests in order to identify...

Companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies, outsourcingbusiness tasks to their business partners. In order to support collaboration between businesspartners, adequate information systems need to be built automating inter-organizationalbusiness processes. The bases for such information systems are business componentscombining so...

Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. Agility thus has become the new guiding principle for enterprises. This requires flexible organizational structures and business processes, as well as flexible supporting information systems a...

Based on changing market conditions and pressure on cost and productivity, companies in different industries have started do concentrate on their core competencies and to decrease vertical range of manufacture which leads to an increasing outsourcing of business processes. With this outsourcing the dependency of companies on their business partners...

Based on rapidly changing market conditions and increasing pressure on cost and productivity, companies in different industries have started to concentrate on their core competencies and to decrease vertical range of manufacture. This resulted in an increasing dependency between the producing companies and their suppliers. Enterprise networks are f...

Case study automating direct banking customer service processes with service oriented architecture / A. Eberhardt, O. Gausmann, A. Albani. - In: On the move to meaningful internet systems 2006: OTM 2006 workshops / Robert Meersman ... (eds.). - Berlin u.a. : Springer. - T. 1. - 2006. - S. 763-779. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 4277)

Supplier network management evaluation and rating of strategic supply networks / N Müssigmann, A. Albani. - In: Applied computing 2006 : the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing / Organizing committee: Hisham M. Haddad ... - New York : Assoc. for Computing Machinery. - T. 2. (2006). - S. 1511-1515

The benefit of enterprise ontology in identifying business components / A. Albani, J. Dietz. - In: Artificial intelligence in theory and practice : IFIP 19th World Computer Congress ; TC 12: IFIP AI 2006 Stream, August 21-24, 2006, Santiago, Chile / ed. by Max Bramer. - New York : Springer, 2006. - S. 1-12. - (IFIP ; 217)

Enabling interoperability of networked enterprises through an integrative information system architecture for CRM and SCM / B. Selk, S. Klöckner, A. Albani. - In: Business process management workshops : BPM 2005 International Workshops, BPI, BPD, ENEI, BPRM, WSCOBPM, BPS, Nancy, France, September 5, 2005; rev. selected papers / eds.: Christopher Bu...

Compatibility test for coordination sspects of Ssftware components / J. M. Zaha, A. Albani. - In: 2006 Australian Software Engineering Conference : ASWEC 2006 : 18-21 April, 2006, Sydney, Australia. - Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society, 2006. - S. 41-48

Based on changing market conditions companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies while outsourcing supporting processes to their business partners. The outsourcing of business processes results in a strong dependency between companies and their business partners building so called value networks. In order to perform well in such...

The necessity for managing knowledge is stressed bywide array of recent publications ranging from informationscience to strategic management substantiatingtheir proposition with the tremendous changes in thecontext organisations that are operating today. Althoughknowledge management (KM) literature and researchprojects are increasingly extending th...

With the deployment of specialized application systems e.g. customer relationship management (CRM) or supply chain management (SCM), the interconnection of enterprises becomes more and more complex. At the same time the need for exchanging information between enterprises, being part of different value networks, increases. This interconnection of e...

In order to achieve and maintain an optimal fit between business processes (BPs) and business process support systems (BPSs), both need to be understood thoroughly and coherently. Moreover, to benefit fully from the potentials of modern information and communication technology (ICT), the deep structure that lies behind the surface structure of BPs...

With this Symposium for PhD students associated with the “On The Move Federated Conferences” we present the second edition of an event stimulating PhD students to summarise and present their results on an international forum. The Symposium supports PhD students in their research by offering an internationally highly reputed publication channel, nam...

Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. Agility has become the new guiding principle for enterprises. It means that enterprises must be able to easily collaborate with other enterprises expand, be it through participating in enterpr...

T he deployment of business components,in large enterprise informa- tion systems offers great potential. Nonetheless the process of finding and de- fining ther ight business components is very challenging. While the definition ofb usiness components is comparativelys imple for small business domains, it becomes very complex for larger domains of in...

Extended ERP : dynamic strategic supply network development / A. Albani, N. Müssigmann, K. Turowski. - In: ICESAcc 2005 - Second International Conference on Enterprise Systems and Accounting / C. J. Stefanou. - Thessaloniki : Labor. of Enterprise Resources Dep. of Accounting, 2005. - 1 CD-ROM

Evaluation of strategic supply networks / A. Albani, N. Müssigmann. - In: On the move to meaningful internet systems 2005: OTM 2005 workshops / Meersman ... (ed.). - Berlin u.a. : Springer, 2005. - S. 582-591. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 3762)

Establishing interoperability of coordination protocols in ad-hoc inter-organizational collaborations / A. Albani ... - In: Interoperability of enterprise software and applications / Dimitri Konstantas ... (eds.). INTEROP-ESA ´05 ... - London : Springer, 2005. - S. 123-133

Experience report: appropriateness of the BCI-method for identifying business components in large-scale information systems / A. Albani ... - In: Component-oriented enterprise applications : proc. of the Conference on Component-Oriented Enterprise Applications (COEA 2005) / K. Turowski ... (Hrsg.). - Bonn : Ges. für Informatik, 2005. - S.41-56. - (...

Stable component models are an essential prerequisite for developingcustomer-individual business applications. Thereby the information for theidentification and specification of their components is gained from domainmodels. Reference models constitute a potential source for building enterprisespecificdomain models. Based on the analysis of existing...

The digital revolution has just begun. Globalization, increasing competitive pressure, mergers and acquisitions and, above all, new technological innovations force many enterprises to undergo drastic changes that cannot be coped with traditional change and restructuring programs.

Inter-organizational systems (IOS) that enable cross-enterprise value creation have moved in the focus of both the scientific and business community. However, a lack of formal methodological backing, and the absence of proven collaboration concepts and architectures have up to now limited the impact of IOS in practical application. In this paper, w...

Companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies and therefore are increasingly collaborating with partners, forming value networks in order to better react to fast changing market requirements. Value networks for complex products and services are exposed to dynamic changes making it very difficult for a requestor of a product or ser...

This paper presents a component framework for inter-organizational collaboration in value networks in the domain of strategic supply network development. The domain chosen extends the traditional frame of reference in strategic sourcing from a supplier-centric to a supply-network-scope. The basic functionality provided by the component framework an...

We are proud to present the first Symposium for PhD students associated with the “On The Move confederated conferences”. The word ’symposium’ has two basic meanings. Firstly, it means ’the presentation and discussion of short essays on a common topic by different authors’, and secondly ’a merry feast’ or ’drinking together’. As this goes back to fa...

Dynamic modelling of demand driven value networks / A. Albani ... - In: On the move to meaningful internet systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE : OTM confederated international conferences CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2004, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 25-29, 2004 ; proceedings / Robert Meersman ... (eds.). - Berlin [u.a.] : Springer. - T. 1. (2004). - S...

A component-based architecture for protocol vector conversion in inter-organizational systems / A. Albani ... - In: On the move to meaningful internet systems 2004: OTM 2004 workshops : OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, GADA, JTRES, MIOS, WORM, WOSE, PhDS, and INTEROP 2004, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 25 - 29, 2004 ; proceedings...

Component framework for strategic supply network development / A. Albani ... - In: Advances in databases and information systems : 8th East European conference, ADBIS 2004, Budapest, Hungary, September 22 - 25, 2004 / András Benczúr ... (eds.). - Berlin u.a. : Springer, 2004. - S. 67-82. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 3255)

Web applications are often developed ad hoc with limited systematic approach, inhering the potential risk of applications of poor quality and causing considerable costs for maintenance and evolution. This applies also for Web services, since a lack of common integrative specification standards and methodologies for the design of domain specific Web...

This paper presents a process for the design of domain specific business component applications to enforce the use of component based software technologies. Starting from the notion that the direct mapping of business processes to business components often leads to inadequate results, a methodology for identifying and refining business components b...

The high level of complexity connected with the modelling of supplier networks often diminishes the practical impact of supply chain management approaches. Furthermore, many of those approaches primarily focus on operative tasks. This paper proposes a concept for the dynamic modelling of supply chains. In addition, the business domain of strategic...

Der Einkauf im Unternehmen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten von einer rein operativen Funktion zu einer strategischen Kernfunktion entwickelt, wobei dem „klassischen“ Lieferantenmanagement eine herausge-hobene Bedeutung bei der Generierung von Unternehmenswert zukommt Dieser Beitrag erweitert den Bezugsrahmen des Lieferantenmanagements auf d...

Komponentenmodell für die strategische Lieferkettenentwicklung / A. Albani ... - In: Wirtschaftsinformatik 2003 / Wolfgang Uhr ... (Hrsg.). - Heidelberg : Physica-Verl. [u.a.]. - Bd. 2. (2003). - S. 61-80

Domain based identification and modelling of business component applications / A. Albani ... - In: Advances in databases and information systems : 7th East European conference, ADBIS 2003, Dresden, Germany, September 3-6, 2003 / Leonid Kalinichenko ... - Berlin u.a. : Springer, 2004. - S. 30-45. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 2798)

Identification and modelling of Web services for inter-enterprise collaboration exemplified for the domain of strategic supply chain development / A. Albani ... - In: On the move to meaningful Internet systems 2003 : OTM Confederated International Conferences ... ; Catania, Sicily, Italy, November 3-7, 2003 / Robert Meersman ... (eds.). - Berlin u....

Dynamic modelling of strategic supply chains / A. Albani ... - In: E-commerce and web technologies : 4th Internat. Conf., EC-Web, Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 2-5, 2003 / Kurt Bauknecht ... - Berlin u.a. : Springer, 2003. - S. 403-413. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 2738)

Domain specific standardisation for collaborative business applications / A. Albani ... - In: Enhanced interoperable systems / Internat. Conf. on Concurrent Engineering, 26-30 July 2003, Madeira, Portugal. Ed. by R. Jardim-Gonçalves ... - Lisse [u.a.] : Balkema, 2003. - S. 399-409

Compositional reuse of components requires standardised techniques to specify software components, especially if applications are created by combining third party components which are traded on component markets. Especially for business components - components executing a specific business task - it is essen- tial that the corresponding business lo...