Bas van Gils

We posit that AI-Enabled Enterprise is the next phase of digital transformations seen so far. We will start by defining more precisely what we mean by digital transformation and argue that it’s important to ensure these transformations are well-coordinated. We posit this coordination should be seen as a continuous process and take a model-enabled p...

This chapter provides a summary of Part II “The Need for a New Design Logic” and conclusions to be drawn from the single chapters together.

This chapter provides a summary of Part I ”Experience Reports” and conclusions to be drawn from the single chapters together.

This chapter provides a summary of Part III “An Architectural Coordination Perspective” and conclusions to be drawn from the single chapters together.

This conclusion will briefly reflect on the contributions of these chapters in this part.

In the Western world, digital has become the new normal, both in our daily lives and at our work. Additionally, Western countries have seen a transition from a goods-oriented economy to a services-oriented economy. Whereas, in the recent past, it was already the case that change was the only constant, these intertwined, and mutually amplifying, tre...

This chapter reflects on the contributions of the book as a whole and identifies challenges for future research.

This book explores different aspects of and provides concrete suggestions to meet the three main challenges for becoming a “Digital Enterprise”: the transition to the digital age, the emergence of service ecosystems, and the growing role of data as a key underlying resource. As a result of these intertwined and mutually amplifying trends, today’s e...

Organizations operate in a socioeconomic context, and alignment with this context is key for business success. The rate of change and impact of these changes on the operating model of the organization appears to be increasing. Major trends are the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, the "VUCA" aspects (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, am...

This paper is concerned with the teaching of enterprise modelling. Enterprise models play an increasingly important role in society. In general, such models are not created as mere “one off” artefacts. They rather have a life of their own, covering a broad range of uses (from analysis and understanding, via simulation and design, to execution and m...

(Enterprise) Architecture has emerged as a key discipline in dealing with continuous change/transformation in which models play a key role. In most current modelling languages (e.g. ArchiMate\(^{{{\textregistered }}}\)) there is a clear distinction between “business concepts” and “IT concepts”. The question that is addressed in this paper is: is th...

Agility is a key ability of enterprises, but agility does not come for free. Organizations need to choose where to focus their efforts in becoming more agile. This chapter describes an integrated approach for the development of agile enterprises, based on sound engineering principles. This approach uses various types of models and analysis instrume...

When Darwin wrote his opus magnum On the Origin of Species he most likely did not have businesses and other enterprises in mind. Yet, the adage “survival of the fittest” definitely applies to many modern day enterprises. At the moment of writing, it appears we are just heading out of a long economic/ financial crisis. Many corporations have folded,...

The Dutch governmental Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) recently completed a project on business modeling. The aim was to de-velop business models that express the strategic goals of customer event orientation, integrated customer services as well as improved agility. An approach was chosen to combine event definition, dynamic process mod-eling and b...

The relationship between strategy and enterprise architecture is troublesome in many organizations. It seems that this cumbersome relationship is similar to the more ‘traditional’ tension that seemingly exists between business and IT. This paper explores three underlying causes of this tension, most notably (1) overlap in domain of expertise, (2) d...

We use information from the Web for performing our daily tasks more and more often. Locating the right resources that help us in doing so is a daunting task, especially with the present rate of growth of the Web as well as the many different kinds of resources available. The tasks of search engines is to assist us in finding those resources that ar...

Information plays an increasingly important role in our lives. Often we retrieve this information by querying the web: data resources found on the web may provide the information that were looking for. This implies that the Web may be seen as an information market: authors supply information and searchers may find it. In this article we present a f...

In this paper we explore how (micro)economic theory can be used to analyze and model the exchange of information on the Web. More specifically, we consider searchers for information who engage in transactions on the Web. Searchers will engage in web transactions only if they gain something in such a transaction.To this end we develop a formal model...

In this paper we consider information exchange via the Web to be an information market. The notion of quality plays an important role on this information market. We present a model of quality and discuss how this model can be operationalized. This leads us to quality measurement, interpretation of measurements and the associated accuracy. An illus...

We use information from the Web for performing our daily tasks more and more often. Locating the right resources that help us in doing so is a daunting task, especially with the present rate of growth of the Web as well as the many different kinds of resources available. The tasks of search engines is to assist us in finding those resources that ar...

Exception handling in enterprises is an increasingly important topic since exceptions may seriously disrupt day to day operations which may impact on the profits of the enterprise. In this paper we explore two views on the enterprise (top down: architecture, and bottom up: workflow) with respect to exception handling. More specifically, we focus on...

This paper discusses the concept of information market. The authors of this paper have been involved in several aspects of informa- tion retrieval research. In continuing this research tradition we now take a wider perspective on this field and re-position it as a market where demand for information meets supply for information. The paper starts by...

The Web has, in a relatively short period of time, evolved from a medium for information exchange between scholars to one of the most important media in modern times. This has had a major impact on the infrastructure supporting the Web. Retrieval systems that select relevant resources from the ever increasing volume of resources that are available...

This paper discusses the concept of information market. The authors of this paper have been involved in several aspects of information retrieval research. In continuing this research tradition we now take a wider perspective on this field, and position it as a market where demand for information meets supply for information.

A myriad of resources can be found on the Web to-day, and finding (topically) relevant resources for a given information need is a daunting task. Even if relevant resources can be found, they may not be apt for the searcher in a given context: some prop-erties of the resource may be "wrong" for his cur-rent context. Such issues can often be resolve...

This document will discuss the Vimes retrieval architecture broker com- ponent from the research project Profile Based Retrieval Of Networked Infor- mation Resources (PRONIR). It will provide an overview of the development process from requirementsinvestigations done with use cases, on to the ac- tual design and implementation.

In this paper we introduce a conceptual model for information supply which abstracts from enabling technologies such as file types, transport protocols and rdf and daml + oil. Rather than focusing on technologies that may be used to actually implement information supply, we focus on the question: what is information supply and how does it relate to...

The Web has grown considerably over the last few years, both in size and in nature. The usage of the internet as a source of information has grown considerably as well. However, finding the right information is not always straight forward. For example, how to go about finding out how many concerts the band Golden Earring gave in the year 1987, or f...

In this article, we present a model for transformation of resources in information supply. These transformations allow us to reason more flexibly about information supply, and in particular its heterogeneous nature. They allow us to change the form (e.g. report, abstract, summary) and format (e.g. PDF, DOC, HTML) of data resources found on the Web....

In this position paper we will investigate a novel architecture for profilebased retrieval on the Web called Vimes . This architecture is based on the fact that resources found on the Web should not only be topically relevant to a searcher 's query; other characteristics (such as the file format or structural format) of a resource are equally impor...

In this article we present a novel architecture for Information Retrieval on the Web called VIMES. This architecture is based on a broader definition of relevance. This broader definition lies in the fact that there is more then just topical relevance. Documents (or: resources) must also confirm to other constraints with regard to form, format and...

The Web has grown considerably over the last few years, both in size and in nature. The usage of the internet as a source of information has grown considerably as well. However, finding the right information is not always straight forward. For example, how to go about finding out how many concerts the band Golden Earring gave in the year 1987, or f...